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Songs in A Minor

Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&BRhythm and blues

Songs in A Minor is a Contemporary R&B and Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Frédéric Chopin, Marvin Gaye, Earth Wind and Fire, Curtis Mayfield and Stevie Wonder. Those roots explain a lot about how Songs in A Minor arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Lauryn Hill, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 12 connections around Songs in A Minor, reaching back through Frédéric Chopin and forward to Lauryn Hill. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Songs in A Minor is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys. It was released on June 26, 2001, by J Records. A classically trained pianist, Keys wrote, arranged and produced the majority of the album herself, though she frequently worked with her then-partner Kerry "Krucial" Brothers. The efforts resulted in a neo soul record fusing contemporary classical music with R&B, soul, and jazz, alongside influences of hip-hop, blues, and gospel. Its lyrics focus on themes of love, perseverance, self-worth, survival, and introspection. Despite the album's title, only two of its tracks are composed in the key of A minor.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Songs in A MinorFrédéric ChopinMarvin GayeEarth Wind and FireCurtis MayfieldStevie WonderLudwig van BeethovenOl' Dirty BastardPrinceLauryn Hill

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Songs in A Minor grew out of Frédéric Chopin, Marvin Gaye, Earth Wind and Fire and Curtis Mayfield, went on to shape Lauryn Hill. 12 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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