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Jhelisa is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Björk, Massive Attack, The Shamen, Chaka Khan and James Brown. Those roots explain a lot about how Jhelisa arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Groove Collective, Carleen Anderson, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Corduroy and Galliano, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into D'Angelo, Maxwell, Incognito, Jeff Buckley and Outside, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 36 connections around Jhelisa, reaching back through Björk and forward to D'Angelo. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Jhelisa Anderson is an American singer, songwriter and producer who has had critical and commercial success both with her own music which covers soul, jazz and music for meditation, and as a vocalist for major artists including Björk, Massive Attack and the Shamen.
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Jhelisa connections
Jhelisa grew out of Björk, Massive Attack, The Shamen and Chaka Khan, shares an orbit with Groove Collective, Carleen Anderson, Brooklyn Funk Essentials and Corduroy, went on to shape D'Angelo, Maxwell, Incognito and Jeff Buckley. 36 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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