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Natacha Atlas

Jazz
JazzWorld music

Natacha Atlas is a Jazz and World music act. Their sound grew out of Talvin Singh, Skin, Yasmin Levy, Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart and Ibrahim Maalouf. Those roots explain a lot about how Natacha Atlas arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Souad Massi, Cesária Évora, Niyaz, Fairuz and Talvin Singh, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Kroke, Belinda Carlisle, Peter Gabriel, Glykeria and Transglobal Underground, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 27 connections around Natacha Atlas, reaching back through Talvin Singh and forward to Kroke. 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
Natacha AtlasTalvin SinghSkinYasmin LevyJah Wobble's Invader…Ibrahim MaaloufKrokeBelinda CarlislePeter GabrielGlykeriaTransglobal Undergro…Jean-Michel JarreNigel KennedySouad MassiCesária ÉvoraNiyazFairuzTalvin SinghCheb MamiOmar SouleymanAzam Ali

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Natacha Atlas grew out of Talvin Singh, Skin, Yasmin Levy and Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart, shares an orbit with Souad Massi, Cesária Évora, Niyaz and Fairuz, went on to shape Kroke, Belinda Carlisle, Peter Gabriel and Glykeria. 27 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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