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Hikaru Utada

Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&BDance-popFunk

Hikaru Utada is a Contemporary R&B and Dance-pop act. Their catalogue also touches Funk, J-pop and Rhythm and blues. Their sound grew out of Superfly, Floating Points, Mika, BoA and The Carpenters. Those roots explain a lot about how Hikaru Utada arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Perfume, Misia, BONNIE PINK, Akina Nakamori and KOKIA, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Hideaki Tokunaga, Sarah and the Safe Word, Foxy Brown, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 33 connections around Hikaru Utada, reaching back through Superfly and forward to Hideaki Tokunaga. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Hikaru UtadaSuperflyFloating PointsMikaBoAThe CarpentersNamie AmuroRingo SheenaTakuroHideaki TokunagaSarah and the Safe W…Foxy BrownPharrell WilliamsChad HugoJunior JackNe-YoTaeyeonPerfumeMisiaBONNIE PINKAkina NakamoriKOKIAYukiThe Brilliant GreenMinmi

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Hikaru Utada connections

Hikaru Utada grew out of Superfly, Floating Points, Mika and BoA, shares an orbit with Perfume, Misia, BONNIE PINK and Akina Nakamori, went on to shape Hideaki Tokunaga, Sarah and the Safe Word, Foxy Brown and Pharrell Williams. 33 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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