Comment: Theatre Journals
2001; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 53; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/tj.2001.0085
ISSN1086-332X
Autores Tópico(s)Musicology and Musical Analysis
ResumoLaura Nyro, the extraordinary singer songwriter, wrote "And When I Die" in the mid-1960s. At the age of seventeen she sold the song to Peter, Paul, and Mary and thus launched her musical career. Her soulful music helped chronicle the turbulent times of the 1960s, and she was one of the first in a string of successful female singer songwriters to address women's issues in popular music. You can hear her influence in the music of nearly every woman singer songwriter from Joni Mitchell and Phoebe Snow to Suzanne Vega and Tracy Chapman. Nyro was also one of the first women to have her songs cross over into mainstream radio. Her songs were recorded by Barbra Streisand ("Stoney End"), The Fifth Dimension ("Stoned Soul Picnic" and "Wedding Bell Blues"), Three Dog Night ("Eli's Comin'"), and Blood, Sweat, and Tears ("And When I Die"). Even as these artists scored major hits with her songs, Nyro's own recordings such as Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, New York Tendaberry, and Christmas and the Beads of Sweat were themselves critically acclaimed. She achieved nearly instantaneous cult status among her thousands of fans.
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