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Tokio is a J-pop act. Their sound grew out of Ringo Sheena, Toma Ikuta, KinKi Kids, Tsuyoshi Domoto and Kōji Tamaki. Those roots explain a lot about how Tokio arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as V6, KinKi Kids, News, Kis-My-Ft2 and Exile, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into V6, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 14 connections around Tokio, reaching back through Ringo Sheena and forward to V6. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Tokio connections
Tokio grew out of Ringo Sheena, Toma Ikuta, KinKi Kids and Tsuyoshi Domoto, shares an orbit with V6, KinKi Kids, News and Kis-My-Ft2, went on to shape V6. 14 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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