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Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Bob Marley, I Threes and The Wailers. Those roots explain a lot about how Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Ziggy Marley, Steel Pulse, Aswad, Third World and Wailing Souls, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Julian Marley, Rita Marley, Erykah Badu, Stephen Marley and Snoop Dogg, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 27 connections around Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers, reaching back through Bob Marley and forward to Julian Marley. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers were a Jamaican-American reggae family group whose line-up consisted of the children of musicians Bob Marley and Rita Marley, including lead singer Ziggy Marley with Sharon Marley, Cedella Marley, and Stephen Marley. Formed in 1979 in Brooklyn, New York, Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers members began their musical endeavours in their pre-teens under the name the Melody Makers.
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Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers connections
Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers grew out of Bob Marley, I Threes and The Wailers, shares an orbit with Ziggy Marley, Steel Pulse, Aswad and Third World, went on to shape Julian Marley, Rita Marley, Erykah Badu and Stephen Marley. 27 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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