| Influences | The Funk Brothers, James Jamerson, Wilson Picket, Jon Coltrane, The Meters, The Temptations, Dizzie Gillespie, Pharoah Saunders, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, The Duke, Booker T & the MGs, The Fatback Band, Chuck Carbo, Herb Alpert, Dionne Warwick, The Grassroots, Serge Gainesburgh, Rare Earth, The Blackbyrds, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Grand Funk, Funkadelic, Ernie Gale, Roy Ayers, Ramsey Lewis, Black Motion, Lee Dorsey, Noam Chomsky, Minnie Ripperton, Herbie Hancock, The Crystallites, Curtis Mayfield, Ed Rush & Optical, Dillinja & Lemon D, DJ Krust, Preton Epps, Nancy Holloway, Aldous Huxley, The Ebony Rhythm Band, Eugene McDaniels, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, The Daz Band, Weldon Irvine, BT Express, Earth, Wind, and Fire, African Music Machine, 9th Creation, Al Green, MArvin Gaye, The Abyssinians, The Gladiators, BT Express, Jack Arel, Alvin Cash & The Registers, Herb Albert, Iron Butterfly, Quincy Jones, Sergio Mendez, Brian Bennet, Howard Zinn, Mahler, Wagner, Verdi, Ksiezycowa, Roland Kirk, DJ Premier, Havoc, Rza, Kno, Prince Paul, The Impressions, The Aggrovators, Lee Perry, King Tubby, Prince Jammy, Scientist, Alain Goraguer, Alphonse Mouzon, Bad Company, Angie Stone, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Parliament, Billy Holiday, Maceo Parker, Sly & The Family Stone, Rick James, The O`Jays |