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Lafayette Afro Rock Band is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Manu Dibango, Billie Holiday, Sunnyland Slim and Nino Ferrer. Those roots explain a lot about how Lafayette Afro Rock Band arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The J.B.'s, The Poets of Rhythm, Idris Muhammad, Johnny Hammond and Eddie Hazel, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Wu-Tang Clan, Osibisa, War, Mandrill and Kool & The Gang, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 44 connections around Lafayette Afro Rock Band, reaching back through Manu Dibango and forward to Wu-Tang Clan. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Lafayette Afro Rock Band was an American funk band formed in Roosevelt, Long Island, New York in 1970. Shortly after their formation, they relocated to France. Though little-known in their native United States during their recording period, they have since become celebrated as one of the standout funk bands of the 1970s and are particularly noted for their use of break beats. The band also recorded under the names Ice, Crispy & Co., Captain Dax, and others.
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Lafayette Afro Rock Band connections
Lafayette Afro Rock Band grew out of Manu Dibango, Billie Holiday, Sunnyland Slim and Nino Ferrer, shares an orbit with The J.B.'s, The Poets of Rhythm, Idris Muhammad and Johnny Hammond, went on to shape Wu-Tang Clan, Osibisa, War and Mandrill. 44 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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