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The Synthesizer: Instrument, Not The Player, Changes Music

Vernon Gibbs, Billboard, 16 June 1984

HERBIE HANCOCK, Kashif, and Ray Parker Jr. praise the impact of the synthesizer on black music, feeling its unlimited sound potential and ability to provide an "individualized" sound makes it crucial to their music.

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