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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 Mint Condition, Keith Sweat, Dru Hill, SWV and Donell Jones, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into 98 Degrees, J Dilla, The Diary of Alicia Keys, Bobby V and D'Angelo, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 51 connections around Tony! Toni! Toné!, reaching back through Dru Hill and forward to 98 Degrees. 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! connections
Tony! Toni! Toné! grew out of Dru Hill, DJ Quik, Prince and The Temptations, shares an orbit with Mint Condition, Keith Sweat, Dru Hill and SWV, went on to shape 98 Degrees, J Dilla, The Diary of Alicia Keys and Bobby V. 51 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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