Sentence examples for the earliest influence from inspiring English sources

"That was the earliest influence on me," he says.

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.

Probably the earliest influence I had was Elia Kazan.

The earliest influence is the intrauterine environment and early life conditions, such as fetal undernutrition and stress and maternal stress, which can lead to low birth weight and a predisposition to adult diabetes (27).

One of the earliest influences on Marceau's work was the silent cinema.

The piece's simplistic, yet poignant aesthetic can be seen as one of the earliest influences on abstract art and minimalism of the 60s and 70s.

One of the earliest influences on the New Age movement was the Swedish Christian mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 1772), who professed the ability to communicate with angels, demons, and spirits.

Some of the earliest influences on the band were emerging punk rock acts, such as The Jam, The Clash, Buzzcocks, Sex Pistols and Joy Division.

Rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson was inducted in the Early Influence category.