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Keith Sweat

Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues

Keith Sweat is a Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of The Five Stairsteps, Lucky Daye, Troop, Kut Klose and Dru Hill. Those roots explain a lot about how Keith Sweat arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Kut Klose, Joe, Al B. Sure!, Tyrese and Gerald Levert, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Silk, Koffee Brown, Joe, Kut Klose and Gerald Levert, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 55 connections around Keith Sweat, reaching back through The Five Stairsteps and forward to Silk. 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
Keith SweatThe Five StairstepsLucky DayeTroopKut KloseDru HillGQImmatureIMxSilkKoffee BrownJoeKut KloseGerald LevertAl B. Sure!Brian McKnightEl DeBargeKut KloseJoeAl B. Sure!TyreseGerald LevertDru HillBlackstreetAfter 7

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Keith Sweat connections

Keith Sweat grew out of The Five Stairsteps, Lucky Daye, Troop and Kut Klose, shares an orbit with Kut Klose, Joe, Al B. Sure! and Tyrese, went on to shape Silk, Koffee Brown, Joe and Kut Klose. 55 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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