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It would be difficult to overstate Laura Nyro's influence on late-20th-century popular music. A self-taught pianist who grew up listening to Leontyne Price, Billie Holiday, Debussy, and Ravel, Nyro began composing songs as a child and attended Manhattan's High School of Music and Art. In 1966 she sold her first song – "And When I Die" – at ...
10 de abr. de 1997 · Laura Nyro, one of the most important female singer/songwriters of the ’60s and ’70s, died Tuesday at her Danbury, Conn., home at the age of 49 due to complications from ovarian cancer.
Laura Nyro, era una vibrante cantante y pianista que se hizo mujer cuando Bob Dylan interpretaba en el Greenwich Village y había demanda de cantautores poéticos. Se llamaba en realidad Laura Nigro y nació en el Bronx, de ascendencia judeoitaliana; su padre era trompetista de jazz.
18 de oct. de 2023 · That’s what makes The First Songs so special. ‘I have to sing,’ Nyro said to Ed Sciacky in a rare interview in 1989. ‘I see singing as an art,’ she told him, with an air of confession. I wonder why it seems unpopular to admit this today. Pop singers have developed an art to their craft, too, just as opera singers do.
Laura Nyro (født Laura Nigro, 18. oktober 1947 i New York City – 8. april 1997 i Danbury, Connecticut) var en amerikansk komponist, sangskriver, sanger og pianist. Hendes musikstil var en særlig blanding af pop, jazz, gospel, R&B, show tunes og rock.
Laura Nyro fue una cantautora de Nueva York que dio inicio a su carrera discográfica en 1967 con este “More Than A New Discovery”, un LP que fue producido por Milt Okun en el sello Verve. El disco recogía básicamente canciones grabadas en 1966 que años después se editaron en un disco titulado “The First Songs”.
Her repertoire includes songs like “Stoned Soul Picnic,” “Save The Country,” “Sweet Blindness,” and “Wedding Bell Blues.”. She recorded nine studio albums, with her 1968 release ...
