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Stephanie Mills

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Stephanie Mills is a House act. Their sound grew out of René & Angela, BeBe Winans, Didn't We Almost Have It All, Vesta Williams and Donald Lawrence. 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, Shalamar, Jeffrey Osborne and The Jones Girls, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Dawn Robinson, Vesta, Irene Cara, Thomas Anders and Teddy Pendergrass, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 46 connections around Stephanie Mills, reaching back through René & Angela and forward to Dawn Robinson. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Stephanie MillsRené & AngelaBeBe WinansDidn't We Almost Hav…Vesta WilliamsDonald LawrenceFirst ChoiceMtumePaul JabaraDawn RobinsonVestaIrene CaraThomas AndersTeddy PendergrassDiana RossBeBe WinansDMXMiki HowardAshford & SimpsonShalamarJeffrey OsborneThe Jones GirlsTeena MarieLoose EndsChange

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Stephanie Mills connections

Stephanie Mills grew out of René & Angela, BeBe Winans, Didn't We Almost Have It All and Vesta Williams, shares an orbit with Miki Howard, Ashford & Simpson, Shalamar and Jeffrey Osborne, went on to shape Dawn Robinson, Vesta, Irene Cara and Thomas Anders. 46 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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