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Sophie B. Hawkins is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan. Those roots explain a lot about how Sophie B. Hawkins arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Donna Lewis, Jewel, Belinda Carlisle, Meredith Brooks and Annie Lennox, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sarah Brightman, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 17 connections around Sophie B. Hawkins, reaching back through Janis Joplin and forward to Sarah Brightman. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Sophie Ballantine Hawkins is an American singer-songwriter. Born in New York City, she attended the Manhattan School of Music for a year as a percussionist before leaving to pursue a music career. In the 1990s, she achieved critical and commercial success with her first two albums, producing a string of single hits including "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover", "Right Beside You", and "As I Lay Me Down". A dispute with her record label Sony Music over her third album, Timbre, led her to establish her own independent label, Trumpet Swan Productions, which has published her subsequent recordings.
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Sophie B. Hawkins grew out of Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan, shares an orbit with Donna Lewis, Jewel, Belinda Carlisle and Meredith Brooks, went on to shape Sarah Brightman. 17 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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