◇ image via WikipediaStephanie Mills
Stephanie Mills is a House act. Their sound grew out of Gladys Knight & the Pips, Reggie Lucas, Prince, Vesta Williams and Didn't We Almost Have It All. Those roots explain a lot about how Stephanie Mills arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Miki Howard, Ashford & Simpson, Jeffrey Osborne, The Jones Girls and Loose Ends, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Thomas Anders, Teddy Pendergrass, Diana Ross, BeBe Winans and DMX, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 40 connections around Stephanie Mills, reaching back through Gladys Knight & the Pips and forward to Thomas Anders. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Stephanie Mills connections
Stephanie Mills grew out of Gladys Knight & the Pips, Reggie Lucas, Prince and Vesta Williams, shares an orbit with Miki Howard, Ashford & Simpson, Jeffrey Osborne and The Jones Girls, went on to shape Thomas Anders, Teddy Pendergrass, Diana Ross and BeBe Winans. 40 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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