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Tony! Toni! Toné!

Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues

Tony! Toni! Toné! is a Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Dru Hill, DJ Quik, Prince, The Temptations and Sly and the Family Stone. Those roots explain a lot about how Tony! Toni! Toné! arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as SWV, Donell Jones, Al B. Sure!, Carl Thomas and Case, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Roots, Beyoncé, Total, Dawn Robinson and 98 Degrees, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 46 connections around Tony! Toni! Toné!, reaching back through Dru Hill and forward to The Roots. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

Background

Tony! Toni! Toné! was an American R&B/soul band from Oakland, California. During the band's heyday from the late 1980s to mid-1990s, it was composed of D'Wayne Wiggins on lead vocals and guitar, his brother Raphael Saadiq on lead vocals and bass, and their cousin Timothy Christian Riley on drums, keyboards, and background vocals. Originally, the band went by "Tony, Toni, Toné" as a joke, until they realized it "had a nice ring to it".

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Tony! Toni! Toné!Dru HillDJ QuikPrinceThe TemptationsSly and the Family S…Earth Wind and FireAretha FranklinJames BrownThe RootsBeyoncéTotalDawn Robinson98 DegreesH-TownSilkNourished by TimeSWVDonell JonesAl B. Sure!Carl ThomasCaseBlackstreetMusiqRaheem DeVaughn

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Tony! Toni! Toné! connections

Tony! Toni! Toné! grew out of Dru Hill, DJ Quik, Prince and The Temptations, shares an orbit with SWV, Donell Jones, Al B. Sure! and Carl Thomas, went on to shape The Roots, Beyoncé, Total and Dawn Robinson. 46 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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