He blends rock, folk, blues and classically influenced music into a boundary-defying style that has won him a devoted following all over the world.
"A lot of times we'll be influenced by the music, and just be influenced by our journey on the road, " she says.
And Bob Harris of BBC Radio 2 described Brown as a "massive influence, not just for black music but also for so many white music fans who were so strongly motivated and influenced by the music he made".
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He was influenced by Celtic music and Woody Guthrie, but also, Buddy Holly, The Everly Brothers and The Beatles.
New festival elements this year include Cross the Tracks, a strand that throws the spotlight on contemporary, underground music influenced by jazz.
Penate says that while he did listen to the band, he was more influenced by soul music much like Weller himself.
Cash was born in Arkansas in 1932 and started writing songs at the age of 12, influenced by country music on the radio.
Arhoolie veterans are joined by such admiring, label-influenced roots-music stars as Ry Cooder, Taj Mahal and Peter Rowan on some 70 exuberant tracks.
In the mid-1960s, he developed a new African dance music influenced by places both in and outside Africa, including black America and the Middle East.
But Dvorak also wrote pieces that were influenced by Czech folk music.
Reznor and Ross are among the famous rock and electronic musicians sweeping into the film business as young generations of filmmakers draw on the music that influenced them personally.
"I remember growing up in the Middle East, influenced, enjoying his music, waiting for his albums, " CNN iReporter Rany Freeman, an Egyptian living in Canada, said in a video submission.
But he'll be best remembered as a man who influenced the course of black music.
Her last album, Tropical Brainstorm, was a tribute to Cuban music, which had influenced her throughout the 1990s.
If a recording has any advantage over a live performance, it's that listening to the music isn't influenced by watching the musicians.
There was a Romanian folk music and dance-influenced Gypsy section, before the Rave element, which had far eastern influences, emerging "all sparkly and sporty".
The rich repertoire of songs and scores preserves ancient folk music and poems and has influenced opera, puppet theatre and other performing art traditions.
Born into a large Mexican immigrant family in San Antonio, Escovedo was heavily influenced by his father, who loved music and often sang in local mariachi bands.
As the user navigates through the app, he or she can download songs for subway listening, discover similar artists and even check out the music of the bands that influenced their favorite artists.
Regarded as one of Britain's most influential songwriters, his style has progressed away from rock music to a more classically-influenced sound.
"Kaburias" by Nacho Duato (a Kabuki-influenced work to Leo Brouwer's flamencoesque music) showed Mr. Hallberg bare-chested and aswirl, to little clear effect, in a ruffle-hemmed black skirt that was initially arranged to look like gaucho pants.
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Strictly speaking, it was a way of dressing that came out the Seattle music scene in the '90s and influenced kids everywhere.
"Anybody who works in music, anywhere in the globe has been influenced by him, " Himmelman says.
After class he took in the music of the Cuban streets, the African-influenced rumba.
Early U2 recordings show earnest young men influenced to varying degrees by Christianity, Irish social unrest and punk music.
Born in New Zealand, Finn was influenced by the classic sounds of British Invasion bands like the Beatles and Kinks, but also by the music of New Zealand's native Maori people.
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