Musicians

Almost all music, with the exception of highly experimental music, includes words, riffs, chord progressions, and other elements the have occurred before. That's what music actually is. It is a shared vocabulary of diverse musical elements. My favorite example is how West and Central African music came to America with enslaved Africans, morphed into gospel and blues after encountering European church and folk music. Then morphed again into ragtime and jazz. Perhaps an even more interesting example is how enslaved people in the Caribbean, and Latin America created Afro-Latin music such as the Rhumba when they encountered European music, which then moved back to Africa to become a whole popular genre of its own in the form of Congolese Rhumba.