Claim: Buddy Holly's style was influenced by a genre of music.
Evidence: His style was influenced by gospel music , country music , and rhythm and blues acts , and he performed in Lubbock with his friends from high school.
Country music -LRB- frequently referred to as just country -RRB- is a genre of United States popular music that originated in the southern United States in the 1920s.
Gospel music is a music genre in Christian music.
Rhythm and blues , often abbreviated as R&B or RnB , is a genre of popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s.