◇ image via WikipediaKinKi Kids
KinKi Kids is a J-pop act. Their sound grew out of News, Arashi, Yasushi Akimoto, Maurice White and Elton John. Those roots explain a lot about how KinKi Kids arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as V6, Hey! Say! JUMP, Kis-My-Ft2, Mr.Children and T.M.Revolution, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into V6, Tokio, Kazuya Kamenashi, Ryosuke Yamada and Tackey & Tsubasa, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 27 connections around KinKi Kids, reaching back through News and forward to V6. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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KinKi Kids connections
KinKi Kids grew out of News, Arashi, Yasushi Akimoto and Maurice White, shares an orbit with V6, Hey! Say! JUMP, Kis-My-Ft2 and Mr.Children, went on to shape V6, Tokio, Kazuya Kamenashi and Ryosuke Yamada. 27 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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