◇ image via WikipediaTaana Gardner
Taana Gardner is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Aural Exciters and Labelle. Those roots explain a lot about how Taana Gardner arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Gwen Guthrie, Thelma Houston, Inner Life, Skyy and Silver Convention, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into De La Soul, Ini Kamoze, Kool & The Gang, Peabo Bryson and Edwin Starr, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 37 connections around Taana Gardner, reaching back through Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band and forward to De La Soul. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Taana Gardner connections
Taana Gardner grew out of Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Aural Exciters and Labelle, shares an orbit with Gwen Guthrie, Thelma Houston, Inner Life and Skyy, went on to shape De La Soul, Ini Kamoze, Kool & The Gang and Peabo Bryson. 37 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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