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Bjork is an Icelandic singer songwriter, who is best known for her solo work covering a wide range of musical styles. She integrates both organic and electronic sound into her music, which often explores the relationship between nature and technology. Bjork has a tendency to genre hop, making the music she feels, rather than sticking to any particular musical style. Her music is exploratory and eye opening, much like the music that Amy Lee writes. She has great passion for her craft, which is something Amy lee also shows. Amy Lee has stated that Bjork inspired her by opening her eyes to a whole new range of music, and that Bjork’s album ‘Debut’ was a huge inspiration to her (Napster, 2011).

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Tori Amos is an American singer, songwriter and pianist. She has a classically trained voice, and was a child prodigy on the piano, composing her own pieces as early as four years old. Her lyrics cover a broad range of topics, including feminism, politics, sexuality, and religion, and she draws inspiration from what she observes in the world around her.Her vocals are delivered in a bold and emotional way, much like the way that Amy Lee delivers her vocals. Amy Lee is also a classically trained vocalist with a mezzo soprano range, and much like Tori Amos, she is a skilled pianist who sings with intention and emotion.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the greatest composers in the history of western music. Unlike most other composers at the time, he wrote music in all of the musical genres of his day, and excelled at all of them. His music has a wide range of expression, and was written with great technical skill. He was extremely dedicated to his craft from a very early age, and his music has inspired many people throughout history. I think that Amy Lee’s music has similarities to the music of Mozart, in the sense that the music is highly emotional, in a way that makes you feel the emotion that is trying to be conveyed, even without lyrical content. Amy Lee has stated that she was obsessed with Mozart as a child, and that is what made her aspire to become a composer. She wanted to make music that made her feel so passionately (Lach, 2020).

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Amy Lee, lead singer of American rock band Evanescence, has been an influence of mine since i was a child. The ambient, emotional rock music that she makes is emotive and moving. Her vocals are drenched in emotion, and use of more classical instruments like piano and violin in their music creates a beautifully dark atmosphere. Her lyrics are about love, loss, loneliness, and a range of other powerful and relatable feelings.  She has stated “I love contrast in music — I love when you can put something really dark with something really light or put something really heavy with something beautiful.”(EVANESCENCE’s AMY LEE: “I Love Contrast in Music,” 2021) and I think that the contrast in the music that she makes is really beautiful, and a big inspiration to me, musically. She shows a lot of passion and dedication to her craft, and carries herself in a respectable and admirable manner.

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Charles Bukowski was a prolific underground poet, whose writing was shocking in its unapologetic honesty. He drew inspiration for his writing from his own experience, emotion and imagination, and used direct language to display violent and often sexual imagery. He has a consistent style that projects the struggles that he has faced in life. Anthony Kiedis is also known for his use of salacious and sometimes violent imagery in his lyrics, which was likely due to the influence of Charles Bukowski. Kiedis’s lyrical writing style has the same theme of being unapologetically honest, and depicting the depravity of urban life and the messages of the downtrodden members of society.

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Prince, later known as ‘The artists formerly known as Prince’, was an American singer-songwriter and dancer, who was considered to be one of the most talented and influential American musicians of his generation . He was an incredible composer and a multi-instrumentalist who showed great dedication and love for his craft. His early music was funky and soulful, and his later music incorporated influences like jazz, heavy metal, punk, and hip hop. Anthony Kiedis's salacious lyrical themes and funk-rock pilfering seem to draw inspiration from the music of Prince, and really shines through in tracks like “Sir Psycho Sexy” by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

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Neil Young is a Canadian singer songwriter, who rose to fame in the seventies. His music is known for being eclectic and idiosyncratic, and ranges from solo folk to grungy guitar based rock . His lyrics cover topics like romance and love, but also branch out to metaphorical social commentary, and his words carry passion and intention. His classic hit ‘Heart of Gold’ is the song that initially sparked Anthony Kiedis’ love of music (Starkey, 2021), and he was inspired by the incredibly emotive delivery of the lyrics, and the way the music was able to move him. Anthony also delivers his vocals in an emotive and passionate way, which was very likely inspired by Neil Young.

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Anthony Keidis, lead singer of American rock band, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, was one of my earliest influences. He created music that was in-your-face and catchy. I really loved the guitars in the music, and the rock and roll genre was much different to what I was used to hearing on the radio. His scat-like vocals and energetic stage presence give the band an edgy aesthetic, while his poetic lyrics have a lot of meaning and intention behind them, and carry a lot of emotion, which can be felt by the audience. Kiedis has stated “To me, there’s nothing more meaningful than music and dancing. It’s as important to me as my mother and best friends.”(Taysom, 2022) which I relate to strongly, as the music that I make is very important to me.

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Linda Perry is an American Singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer, first known for being the lead singer of 4 non blondes, a rock band of the late eighties to early nineties . Linda sings with a lot of emotion in her voice, and her lyrics are sung with passion and intention, which is something that Pink has said was a huge inspiration to her (Planet Rock Profiles, 2020). Pink also carries a lot of emotion in her performances, and she writes lyrics with intention that shines through in her live shows. Linda expresses her dislike of the gender norms at the time, and Pink has done the same thing in her time.

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Janis Joplin was an American white female blues vocalist of the 1960s, who had a fierce and uninhibited musical style. Her vocals were raucous and bluesy, and she was said to have an electric stage presence. Pink seems to have taken influence from Janis in terms of her stage presence, which is also electric. She also has a similar fierce and uninhibited musical style, with raucous vocals that are also sometimes very bluesy. Pink is not quite as rocky as Janis, but her persona does seem to pay Janis tribute in some ways.

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Madonna is a singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur, who rose to success in the eighties. She was, and still is, immensely successful. Her music is dancy and upbeat, melodic and poppy with catchy choruses, and she has a sweet, girlish voice.  The social themes of her music are predominantly love, sex, and relationships. Pink’s lyrics have similar themes, based around love and relationships, and her music is melodic and catchy in a more modern way. Pink was inspired by how fierce Madonna is, and how her music pushed boundaries. Pink also admired the respect Madonna had for her craft, as well as her dancers and her crew, (Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, 2021), and pink shows the same level of respect to her own dancers and crew today.

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Pink was one of the artists I really loved when I was growing up. Her unique brand of rocky pop music really stood out to me amongst other female artists at the time. The social themes of her music are about love, trust,having fun, being your unapologetic self, and not letting other people make you feel small. Everything from her personal style, to her raspy voice, to her acrobatic stage performances were breaking the gender norms at the time. Her incredible amount of skill across multiple types of artforms is a massive inspiration to me, as well as her respect for her craft. She is a feminist and is vocal in her support of women, stating things like “Shout out to all of the women, across the world, using their brains, their strength, their work ethic, their talent, their 'magic' that they were born with, that only they possess.” (Gallagher, 2016), which are words that inspire me in my own pursuits.