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Mar 1, 2019 · Alan Merrill of The Arrows ("I Love Rock and Roll") was related by marriage to Nyro, and they were very close. "I watched Laura Nyro write all of her first songs," Merrill said in a Songfacts interview. "All of them. I sat in the room and she would run them by me. I'd go, 'You can't speed up like that, you'll never have a hit.
Jun 9, 2017 · There is an abiding image of Laura Nyro as the black sheep at the crowning of the counterculture. On June 17, 1967, the 19-year-old played Monterey. On June 17, 1967, the 19-year-old played Monterey.
Sep 4, 2015 · Laura Nyro and Labelle. “You’ve Really Got A Hold on Me” from Gonna Take A Miracle. (Columbia, 1971) Listen / Buy. Singing with her sistr’en, Labelle, her vocal equals, Nyro lets loose on one of the songs that shaped her. All magisterial singers, they are in sublime control of their full-bodied harmonies.
Dec 10, 2011 · Laura Nyro played and sang her own songs, and wrote a lot of hits for The 5th Dimension, Barbra Streisand, and Blood, Sweat and Tears, including Stoned Soul Picnic, Sweet Blindness, Time and Love.
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 ...
May 12, 2022 · May 12, 2022. Laura Nyro Michael Ochs Archives. A documentary about Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted singer-songwriter Laura Nyro is in the works. Nyro’s son Gil Bianchini will serve as an ...
About Laura Nyro The mysterious, raw, and curiously unsung singer/songwriter and pianist responsible for some of great hits of the late sixties and early seventies.
