◇ image via WikipediaJeanie Tracy
Jeanie Tracy is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Sylvester, Martha Wash, Freddie Hubbard, Mary Wells and Narada Michael Walden. Those roots explain a lot about how Jeanie Tracy arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Paul Parker and Stephen Encinas, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 15 connections around Jeanie Tracy, reaching back through Sylvester and forward to Aretha Franklin. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Jeanie Tracy is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and record producer. She rose to fame in the late 1970s as a background singer of Sylvester, an American disco singer. Her first album, Me and You (1982), featured post-disco hits "I'm Your Jeanie","Sing Your Own Song" and the overlooked 1983 smash R&B and Funk hit,"Can I Come Over And Play With You Tonight". From late 1984 to early 1985, she performed on television Show Star Search where she was the winner in the Female Vocalist category for six weeks. In 1995, Tracy released her second album It's My Time.
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Jeanie Tracy grew out of Sylvester, Martha Wash, Freddie Hubbard and Mary Wells, shares an orbit with Paul Parker and Stephen Encinas, went on to shape Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle. 15 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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