Phoebe Snow

Phoebe Snow, Phoebe Ann actually leaves ( born July 17, 1950 or even 1952 in New York City, † April 26, 2011 in Edison, New Jersey) was an American singer and composer.

Career

He grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, Phoebe Snow had also learned very early guitar lessons and as a teenager to play the piano. Like so many singer-songwriter, she moved since about 1970 by New York clubs and bars, sang her self-composed songs while accompanying herself on her Martin guitar. During an appearance at the Bitter End in Greenwich Village discovered a talent scout of the small Shelter label, the singer with the alto voice, which then got a contract from the MCA belonging to this period company. Direct their first LP ( Phoebe Snow, released in July 1974) was a commercial success ( # 4 on the LP charts ), winner of gold and contained with the withdrawal Poetry Man also a top five hit in the Billboard pop single charts.

Her compositions were strongly influenced by jazz, and even on their first album had musicians such as Bob James, Zoot Sims, Dave Mason, Hugh McDonald, the bassist Chuck Delmonico, harpist Margaret Ross, electric guitarist Steve Burgh and drummer Steve Mosley as their studio band; as backing vocalists in Sam Cooke's Good Times - one of only two foreign compositions on this LP - acted the Persuasions. On Easy Street, the B- side of their first 45 rpm disc Harpo 's Blues, she was accompanied by Stan Getz and Teddy Wilson, two legendary jazz instrumentalists. Your first LPs were therefore also listed in the jazz and the blues charts ( see below).

Their first recordings she has already been published by her stage name, which goes back to a popular fictional character who enlisted at the beginning of the 20th century, with little poems on posters for Lackawanna Railroad. Exactly when Phoebe leaves adopted this stage name, is not known.

They soon moved to Columbia, toured with Paul Simon in 1975, among other things by the United States and took with him the song Gone at Last on; this was also in the charts ( at # 23) as their one year later released second LP Second Childhood, which reached number 13 and went gold again. It also looks like Snow ( also 1976) brought it even into the top 30, while the decline in sales of their next two LPs Never Letting Go (1977) and Against the Grain (1978 ) seemed to indicate an end of their acceptance by the plate buyers. In concerts, the singer also in the late 1970s but was always their audience. The artist 1979 also the first time a chart listing with the single Every Night succeeded in Great Britain ( 37). After she was changed around 1980 to Mirage, and the commercial success came back to Rockaway (1981) and Something Real (1989, Elektra ) reached the Billboard LP charts again better rankings.

In the 1990s she toured with Donald Fagens New York Rock and Soul Revue by the United States and is also represented on their live LP. In these years, she has used his great solo on in Europe and East Asia. In the last episode of the television series Roseanne, she was heard in the final scene with an a cappella version of the title song. In 1999, she was at Camp David for a private concert for Bill Clinton, who is one of Phoebe Snow to his favorite singers, and his wife Hillary.

In 2003, she brought - after 14 years - the first time a long-playing record (Natural Wonder) with new original songs out, also in 2008 another, live -titled album. Most recently, she lived in New Jersey, took singing lessons and was very interested in the opera. Her daughter, Valerie Rose Laub, died on 18 March 2007 at the age of 31 at the consequences of severe, existing since birth disease. In January 2010, Phoebe Snow suffered a stroke and was emergency surgery; a planned concert tour had to be canceled. Your management then had announced that the healing process is proceeding well. End of April 2011, she died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Performances with other artists

Phoebe Snow has performed with a variety of known colleagues and has recorded together with these plates; among which were in addition to the above- Mentioned Jewel, Billy Joel, Queen, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs, Cyndi Lauper, Roger Daltrey, Chaka Khan, CeCe Peniston, Take 6, Michael Bolton, Thelma Houston, Mavis Staples, Laurie Anderson and the Sisters of Glory (with whom they see at the second Woodstock Festival and was heard ). On the taken in 1997, for her late friend and role model Laura Nyro tribute album Time and Love, she sang the title song.

Awards

In May 1998, she was awarded New York's then- mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the Cultural Achievement Award. In addition, Phoebe Snow was awarded the Don Kirschner rock Award, several Playboy Music Poll Awards, New York Music Awards and the Clio Award.

Discography and chart positions

(Only own original LPs; placements by Billboard, for the U.S. )

(1 ) Instead Billboard Hot 100 ( for pop music ) since The Billboard 200