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Ketty Lester

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Ketty Lester is a House act. Their sound grew out of Cab Calloway, Dinah Washington and Nancy Wilson. Those roots explain a lot about how Ketty Lester arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Barbara Lewis, Etta James, Betty Everett, Irma Thomas and Shirley Bassey, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Percy Sledge, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around Ketty Lester, reaching back through Cab Calloway and forward to Percy Sledge. 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
Ketty LesterCab CallowayDinah WashingtonNancy WilsonPercy SledgeBarbara LewisEtta JamesBetty EverettIrma ThomasShirley BasseyDoris TroyBaby WashingtonLinda Scott

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Ketty Lester connections

Ketty Lester grew out of Cab Calloway, Dinah Washington and Nancy Wilson, shares an orbit with Barbara Lewis, Etta James, Betty Everett and Irma Thomas, went on to shape Percy Sledge. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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