◇ image via WikipediaSadao Watanabe
Sadao Watanabe is a Bossa nova and World music act. Their sound grew out of Misia, Bossanova, Luiz Bonfá, Toshiko Akiyoshi and Chico Hamilton. Those roots explain a lot about how Sadao Watanabe arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Ryo Kawasaki, Prism, Ryo Fukui and The Crusaders, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Patrice Rushen, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 12 connections around Sadao Watanabe, reaching back through Misia and forward to Patrice Rushen. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Sadao Watanabe connections
Sadao Watanabe grew out of Misia, Bossanova, Luiz Bonfá and Toshiko Akiyoshi, shares an orbit with Ryo Kawasaki, Prism, Ryo Fukui and The Crusaders, went on to shape Patrice Rushen. 12 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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