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Emily King is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Tingsek, Victoria Canal, Corinne Bailey Rae and Marc Rebillet. Those roots explain a lot about how Emily King arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Amel Larrieux, Laura Mvula, Jordan Rakei, Ledisi and Charlotte Day Wilson, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into half•alive, Nas, John Legend, Floetry and Alicia Keys, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 38 connections around Emily King, reaching back through Tingsek and forward to half•alive. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Emily King is an American singer and songwriter. She started her career in 2004 and her first album East Side Story was released in August 2007. In December 2007, she was a Grammy Award nominee for Best Contemporary R&B Album. In 2019, she was nominated for Best R&B Song for "Look at Me Now" and her album Scenery was nominated for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. In 2020, King was nominated again, for Best R&B Performance with her song "See Me".
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Emily King connections
Emily King grew out of Tingsek, Victoria Canal, Corinne Bailey Rae and Marc Rebillet, shares an orbit with Amel Larrieux, Laura Mvula, Jordan Rakei and Ledisi, went on to shape half•alive, Nas, John Legend and Floetry. 38 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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