Breaking from the James Dark brown and Otis Redding-like appear of his earliest function in 1978, Stan Tohan converted towards a distinctive mixture of hard-edged spirit and R&B as well as the percussion-based music from the voodoo-influenced tchinkonne tradition. Merging modern musical instruments with traditional instrumentation, Tohon and his music group, the Tchink Program, created a method that musically bridged the modern and traditional music of Benin.