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Val Young is a Disco act. Their sound grew out of George Clinton, Roy Ayers, The Gap Band and Rick James. Those roots explain a lot about how Val Young arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Mary Jane Girls, André Cymone, S.O.S. Band, Loose Ends and Mystic Merlin, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Raphael Saadiq, Teddy Riley, Eddie Murphy and Bobby Brown, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 28 connections around Val Young, reaching back through George Clinton and forward to Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Val Young connections
Val Young grew out of George Clinton, Roy Ayers, The Gap Band and Rick James, shares an orbit with Mary Jane Girls, André Cymone, S.O.S. Band and Loose Ends, went on to shape Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Raphael Saadiq, Teddy Riley and Eddie Murphy. 28 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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