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Solange Knowles

Dance-pop
Dance-popHip hopHouse

Solange Knowles is a Dance-pop and Hip hop act. Their catalogue also touches House, Pop and Rhythm and blues. Their sound grew out of Play, Kwes., Break My Soul, 702 and Freemasons. Those roots explain a lot about how Solange Knowles arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Erykah Badu, Ravyn Lenae, Beyoncé, The Internet and Destiny's Child, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Beyoncé, Ashanti, Keyshia Cole, Love Spells and Kiely Williams, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 47 connections around Solange Knowles, reaching back through Play and forward to Beyoncé. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Solange KnowlesPlayKwes.Break My Soul702FreemasonsMoses SumneyBlood OrangeKelelaBeyoncéAshantiKeyshia ColeLove SpellsKiely WilliamsCarly Rae JepsenKelly RowlandMichelle WilliamsErykah BaduRavyn LenaeBeyoncéThe InternetDestiny's ChildJanelle MonáeChloe x HalleAri Lennox

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Solange Knowles connections

Solange Knowles grew out of Play, Kwes., Break My Soul and 702, shares an orbit with Erykah Badu, Ravyn Lenae, Beyoncé and The Internet, went on to shape Beyoncé, Ashanti, Keyshia Cole and Love Spells. 47 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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