◇ image via WikipediaDonnie McClurkin
Donnie McClurkin is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of VaShawn Mitchell, Micah Stampley, Vickie Winans, Andraé Crouch and Tramaine Hawkins. Those roots explain a lot about how Donnie McClurkin arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Byron Cage, Hezekiah Walker, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Israel Houghton and Kirk Franklin and the Family, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Nikki Laoye, Cat Burns, Onos Ariyo, Fred Hammond and John P. Kee, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 33 connections around Donnie McClurkin, reaching back through VaShawn Mitchell and forward to Nikki Laoye. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Donald Andrew McClurkin Jr. is an American gospel singer and minister. He has won three Grammy Awards, ten Stellar Awards, two BET Awards, two Soul Train Awards, one Dove Award and one NAACP Image Awards. He is one of the top selling gospel artists, selling over 13 million albums. Variety dubbed McClurkin as a "Reigning King of Urban Gospel".
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Donnie McClurkin connections
Donnie McClurkin grew out of VaShawn Mitchell, Micah Stampley, Vickie Winans and Andraé Crouch, shares an orbit with Byron Cage, Hezekiah Walker, Tasha Cobbs Leonard and Israel Houghton, went on to shape Nikki Laoye, Cat Burns, Onos Ariyo and Fred Hammond. 33 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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- Israel Houghtonartist
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- Trin-i-tee 5:7artist
- John P. Keeartist
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