Sentence examples for earliest influence from inspiring English sources
"That was the earliest influence on me," he says.
Mae West herself said that her earliest influence was the black entertainer Bert Williams.
Born in December 1989, Swift grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania, and her earliest influence was her opera-singing grandmother.
King was reared in the Mississippi delta, and gospel music in church was the earliest influence on his singing.
The earliest influence on Sangaré's musical development was her mother, a migrant to Bamako from Mali's Wassoulou region, where women had long figured prominently in traditional-music performance.
There is no doubt that his knowledge of Cimabue's work was one of the components of Duccio's style at this time, but it was not the predominant, nor even the earliest influence; very probably Cimabue's influence was a late insertion into a personal style that had already evolved within the framework of the well-developed Sienese tradition.
Timbers's earliest influences were rock music, comedy, and movies.
His earliest influences were boogie-woogie, blues and swing.
Two of his earliest influences, Henry Moore and Eric Gill, also sculpted holes in monumental stone.
One of the earliest influences on Marceau's work was the silent cinema.
But "Hanna" is a film that takes him back to his earliest influences.
