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Michael Jackson was a Pop/Dance artist who has inspired me to start making music since i was a little kid. Michaels soul, danceable music would get me up and dancing with strangers and cultures i didn't know without me realising, This inspired me to start to create my own songs through music production in hopes to touch people or get them up and dancing and feeling good. This expressed to me that no matter your background where you're from or what you have experienced in life a few musical notes could bring it all together and make you forget it all.

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Jermaine Lamarr Cole (J.Cole) is a Hip-Hop/Rap artist who has been one of my biggest influences to making music. J Cole inspired me to write my very first song through his use of lyricism , This encouraged me to have more fun with my lyrics  and try to implement double and triple entendres within my songs.

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Dave is a very deep lyricist; he uses emotion in his songs and tells his stories very rawly. This grabbed my attention and gave me courage to try and tell one of my own stories.

It gave me the understanding that songs are sort of like puzzles. Some of the audience can relate to it whereas others may just become aware of an issue or a side of life they fortunately didn't have to live.

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Marcel Marceau was a french mime artist and actor. Marcel Marceau had inspired Michael from a young age where Michael used to sneak in to his shows and watch him at a young age "I used to sneak in and sit in the audience and watch how he would defy the laws of gravity, like he was stepping on air." (Michael Jackson and Marcel Marceau, 2012). Michaels main inspiration from Marcel was the way he would move his body, he gained his famous moonwalk from watching and observing how marcel moved his limbs to make it look like he was defining gravity. And later implemented it into his performances and created one of the most famous dance moves of all time.

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Charlie Chaplin was a famous actor and filmmaker in the early 1900s specialising in silent film. Charlie inspired Michael Jackson through his use of emotion in his silent movies. (darrencostello1, 2013) incorporated this in all of his live performances drawing inspiration from Charlie and his ability to convey emotion to the audience through different movements and facial expressions.

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James Brown was a famous funk music musician in the 20th century. James was Michaels main inspiration throughout his career, Michael studied Browns songs and used similar techniques and vocal tics that can be heard in James's music such as Michaels "grunts" and "ooo's" in "don't stop till you get enough" are very similar to browns grunts and high pitched scream at the start of "I got the feeling".(Mitchell, 2017)

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Tupac was one the greatest rappers of all time who still has a influence on music today. J Cole was inspired by Tupac at an age as early as 7 years old, J Cole expressed that tupacs first album connected with him through the truth even though he was too young to understand what he was talking about.  "I was too young to know what he was talking about, but it connected. Cause that's the thing about art. It's just truth. It's straight-Whatever you feel. So, even as a seven-year-old kid, eight-year-old kid I could hear Pac's early albums and feel the truth." (J Cole Use to Hang Eminem Rap Lyrics around His Bed., n.d.). is displayed throughout the whole of j Coles career, His music is very raw and attempts to send a message to the listener through truth and different perspectives.

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Nas is a famous rap artist who is known for his great lyricism. Nas inspired J Cole with his different flows and raw sounding voice. This is evident in all of J coles music where he was following in the footsteps of Nas and Eminem in his early career where he was dissed for sounding to much like the two rappers blended together. "My early music career was literally just sounding like eminem and nas. (Philliphs, 2016)

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Eminem is one of the worlds most famous rap artists who bought a lot of attention to the genre. J Cole was inspired by Eminem through his lyricism and storytelling within his songs.
J Cole believed that "Eminem was the best at storytelling through rap". (Philliphs, 2016). in J Coles career we can see that j Cole was extremely influenced by the storytelling in the album 2014 "forest hills drive"  where he tells us stories  about his childhood.

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Lana Del Rey is a very well known pop artist who incorporates many different sounds into her music. Santan Dave was inspired by Lana Del Rey through a specific album called "born to die"  "it almost sounds like every instrument and sound was recorded in the same studio, its an album i wouldn't feel right skipping because all the songs are in such a similar world" (Dave on Lana Del Rey | in Honour of National Album Day, Here’s Why Lana Del Rey’s “Born to Die” Is One of Dave’s All-Time Favourite Albums 💙#DontSkip | by Mercury Prize | Facebook, 2019b). Dave later incorporate this in his career with his debut album psychodrama, This album was recored all in  the same place to give it the same vibe/feeling as Lana del Rey's born to die.

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Drake is a well know artist who specialises in R&B/soul and Hip-Hop/Rap. Drake inspired Dave to start creating music as he saw the impact he was having on the UK, Dave looked up to this and admires "Drakes ability to embrace different cultures within music". (Collins, 2017) influenced Dave to experiment with different cultures and genres in his muci career.

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Hans zimmer is a famous music producer and movie composer. Hans zimmer inspired dave through his movie composing on famous superhero movies which embraced a lot of emotion and tension, (Jones, 2021) This inspired dave to incorporate a lot of emotion and make his albums almost feel like a journey/movie to listen to, this is extremely evident in his debut album psychodrama where we are given a scenario where the listener is in therapy talking to a therapists which is extremely emotional and story driven.