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Labi Siffre is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Harry Nilsson, Brian Bennett, Frank Sinatra and Bee Gees. Those roots explain a lot about how Labi Siffre arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Nick Drake, Donny Hathaway, Shuggie Otis, Adrianne Lenker and Jessica Pratt, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Kenny Rogers, Kanye West, Eminem, Dr. Dre and Vanessa Bell Armstrong, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 33 connections around Labi Siffre, reaching back through Harry Nilsson and forward to Kenny Rogers. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Claudius Afolabi "Labi" Siffre is a British singer, songwriter and poet. Siffre released six albums from 1970 to 1975 and four from 1988 to 1998. His compositions include "It Must Be Love", which reached Number 14 on the UK singles chart in 1971, "Crying Laughing Loving Lying", and "(Something Inside) So Strong" – an anti-apartheid song inspired by a television documentary in which white soldiers in South Africa were filmed shooting at black civilians in the street – which hit Number 4 on the UK chart. The latter song won Siffre the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and it has been used in Amnesty International campaigns.
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Labi Siffre connections
Labi Siffre grew out of Harry Nilsson, Brian Bennett, Frank Sinatra and Bee Gees, shares an orbit with Nick Drake, Donny Hathaway, Shuggie Otis and Adrianne Lenker, went on to shape Kenny Rogers, Kanye West, Eminem and Dr. Dre. 33 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
Who influenced Labi Siffre
Sounds and acts that shaped Labi Siffre.
Artists similar to Labi Siffre
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