◇ image via WikipediaKatie Melua
Katie Melua is a Blues and Jazz act. Their catalogue also touches Pop. Their sound grew out of Queen, John Mayall, Randy Newman, The Cure and Leonard Cohen. Those roots explain a lot about how Katie Melua arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Eva Cassidy, Madeleine Peyroux, Jennifer Warnes, Amy Macdonald and Rumer, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Inside In/Inside Out, Orla Gartland, Kenya Grace and Chris Spedding, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 32 connections around Katie Melua, reaching back through Queen and forward to Inside In/Inside Out. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Katie Melua connections
Katie Melua grew out of Queen, John Mayall, Randy Newman and The Cure, shares an orbit with Eva Cassidy, Madeleine Peyroux, Jennifer Warnes and Amy Macdonald, went on to shape Inside In/Inside Out, Orla Gartland, Kenya Grace and Chris Spedding. 32 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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