◇ image via WikipediaWalter Afanasieff
Walter Afanasieff is a House act. Their sound grew out of Jean-Luc Ponty and Narada Michael Walden. Those roots explain a lot about how Walter Afanasieff arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Sarah Dawn Finer, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Yvonne Catterfeld, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Gladys Knight and Céline Dion, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 12 connections around Walter Afanasieff, reaching back through Jean-Luc Ponty and forward to Yvonne Catterfeld. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Walter Afanasieff connections
Walter Afanasieff grew out of Jean-Luc Ponty and Narada Michael Walden, shares an orbit with Sarah Dawn Finer, went on to shape Yvonne Catterfeld, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston and Gladys Knight. 12 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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