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Marvin Gaye

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Marvin Gaye is a Funk and House act. Their catalogue also touches Pop and Rhythm and blues. Their sound grew out of Nat King Cole, Bob Babbitt, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Four Tops and Bloodstone. Those roots explain a lot about how Marvin Gaye arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, Donny Hathaway, Smokey Robinson, Isaac Hayes and D'Angelo, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Lenny Kravitz, Lionel Richie, Seal, Maroon 5 and Doc Gynéco, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 249 connections around Marvin Gaye, reaching back through Nat King Cole and forward to Lenny Kravitz. 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
Marvin GayeNat King ColeBob BabbittSmokey Robinson and …The Four TopsBloodstoneBlue MagicWillie HutchValerie SimpsonLenny KravitzLionel RichieSealMaroon 5Doc GynécoMichael BoltonTower of PowerParcelsMarvin Gaye & Tammi …Donny HathawaySmokey RobinsonIsaac HayesD'AngeloDavid RuffinThe Jackson 5The Manhattans

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Marvin Gaye connections

Marvin Gaye grew out of Nat King Cole, Bob Babbitt, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles and The Four Tops, shares an orbit with Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, Donny Hathaway, Smokey Robinson and Isaac Hayes, went on to shape Lenny Kravitz, Lionel Richie, Seal and Maroon 5. 249 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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