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Ronnie Laws

Ronnie Laws is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Helen Baylor, Earth Wind and Fire, Larry Dunn and Hugh Masekela. Those roots explain a lot about how Ronnie Laws arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Crusaders, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes, Roy Ayers Ubiquity and Idris Muhammad, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Incognito and Debra Laws, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around Ronnie Laws, reaching back through Helen Baylor and forward to Incognito. 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
Ronnie LawsHelen BaylorEarth Wind and FireLarry DunnHugh MasekelaIncognitoDebra LawsThe CrusadersLonnie Liston SmithLonnie Liston Smith …Roy Ayers UbiquityIdris MuhammadDexter WanselJohnny HammondGary Bartz

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Ronnie Laws connections

Ronnie Laws grew out of Helen Baylor, Earth Wind and Fire, Larry Dunn and Hugh Masekela, shares an orbit with The Crusaders, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes and Roy Ayers Ubiquity, went on to shape Incognito and Debra Laws. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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