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Freshlyground is a Blues and Folk act. Their catalogue also touches Indie rock. Their sound grew out of Femi Kuti, Listen Up! The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Album, Shakira, Miriam Makeba and Stanley Clarke. Those roots explain a lot about how Freshlyground arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Parlotones, Black Coffee, Johnny Clegg, Hugh Masekela and Kabza De Small, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Ahmed Soultan and Tyla, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 12 connections around Freshlyground, reaching back through Femi Kuti and forward to Ahmed Soultan. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Freshlyground connections
Freshlyground grew out of Femi Kuti, Listen Up! The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Album, Shakira and Miriam Makeba, shares an orbit with The Parlotones, Black Coffee, Johnny Clegg and Hugh Masekela, went on to shape Ahmed Soultan and Tyla. 12 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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