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Stir It Up is a Reggae act. Their sound grew out of Bob Marley. Those roots explain a lot about how Stir It Up arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Three Little Birds and Sun Is Shining, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Johnny Nash, Eric Clapton and Haddaway, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 6 connections around Stir It Up, reaching back through Bob Marley and forward to Johnny Nash. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
"Stir It Up" is a song composed by Bob Marley in 1967 and first recorded by the group Bob Marley and the Wailers that year and issued as a single. It was later covered by American singer Johnny Nash on his 1972 album I Can See Clearly Now. The following year, Marley and the Wailers re-recorded the song for their album Catch a Fire.
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Stir It Up grew out of Bob Marley, shares an orbit with Three Little Birds and Sun Is Shining, went on to shape Johnny Nash, Eric Clapton and Haddaway. 6 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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