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Irene Cara

Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&BDiscoFolk

Irene Cara is a Contemporary R&B and Disco act. Their catalogue also touches Folk and Pop. Their sound grew out of Brothers Johnson, Vicki Sue Robinson, Duke Ellington, Stevie Wonder and Sammy Davis Jr.. Those roots explain a lot about how Irene Cara arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Michael Sembello, Laura Branigan, Amii Stewart, The Weather Girls and Belinda Carlisle, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Yael Naim, Robin Beck, Mapei, Vicki Sue Robinson and Lou Reed, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 42 connections around Irene Cara, reaching back through Brothers Johnson and forward to Yael Naim. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.