Nicolette Larson
Nicolette Larson ( born July 17, 1952 in Helena, Montana, † December 16, 1997 in Los Angeles ) was an American pop and country singer.
She became known in 1978 reached with their debut single, the Neil Young song " Lotta Love", the 8th place in the BillboardHot 100 and was also included on the published in the same year album Nicolette, which in the American Billboard charts Place 15 reached and went gold. The second album In The Nick Of Time could not build on the success of its predecessor, but had with the single " Let Me Go, Love", a duet with Michael McDonald still a Top 40 hit. Her first experience in the music business she made as a background singer for Commander Cody and other music greats of the 1970s such as Emmylou Harris, Mary Kay Place, Rodney Crowell, and Linda Ronstadt. The Doobie Brothers dedicated Nicolette Larson as a singer for their albums Minute by Minute (1978) and One Step Closer ( 1980). On their own records that are stylistically attributable to the West Coast music, she sang Versions of several Little Feat songs.
Nicolette Larson died unexpectedly on 16 December 1997 at the age of only 45 years due to a blood clot in the brain in the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. She left her daughter Elsie May and her husband Russ Kunkel, former drummer in the bands of Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne.
Larson was buried in the " Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery " in Los Angeles.