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Zap Mama is a World music act. Their sound grew out of Doug E. Fresh, Fat Boys, Bobby McFerrin, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and The Neville Brothers. Those roots explain a lot about how Zap Mama arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Baaba Maal, Geoffrey Oryema, Erykah Badu, Les Nubians and Amadou & Mariam, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Dubblestandart, Sainkho Namtchylak, Ahmed Soultan, Gabriel Teodros and Luaka Bop, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 35 connections around Zap Mama, reaching back through Doug E. Fresh and forward to Dubblestandart. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Zap Mama connections
Zap Mama grew out of Doug E. Fresh, Fat Boys, Bobby McFerrin and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, shares an orbit with Baaba Maal, Geoffrey Oryema, Erykah Badu and Les Nubians, went on to shape Dubblestandart, Sainkho Namtchylak, Ahmed Soultan and Gabriel Teodros. 35 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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