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Sade Adu is a Funk and House act. Their catalogue also touches Jazz and Rhythm and blues. Their sound grew out of Percy Mayfield, Fela Kuti and Gil Evans. Those roots explain a lot about how Sade Adu arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Erykah Badu, Sweetback, Marvin Gaye, Ms. Lauryn Hill and Lauryn Hill, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Amy Winehouse, UMI, AC/DC, Nelly Furtado and Bossanova, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 28 connections around Sade Adu, reaching back through Percy Mayfield and forward to Amy Winehouse. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Sade Adu connections
Sade Adu grew out of Percy Mayfield, Fela Kuti and Gil Evans, shares an orbit with Erykah Badu, Sweetback, Marvin Gaye and Ms. Lauryn Hill, went on to shape Amy Winehouse, UMI, AC/DC and Nelly Furtado. 28 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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