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Laura Nyro (/ ˈ n ɪər oʊ / NEER-oh; born Laura Nigro; October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was an American songwriter and singer. She achieved critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968) and New York Tendaberry (1969), and had commercial success with artists such as Barbra ...
- Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro
Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro is the second...
- New York Tendaberry
New York Tendaberry is the third album by New York City-born...
- Smile
Laura Nyro, Charlie Calello: Laura Nyro chronology; Gonna...
- Eli and The Thirteenth Confession
The album was written entirely by Nyro, arranged by Charlie...
- Gonna Take a Miracle
Gonna Take a Miracle is the fifth album by New York City...
- More Than a New Discovery
More Than a New Discovery is the debut album by Bronx -born...
- Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro
Laura Nyro, the New York-born singer and songwriter whose impassioned, iconoclastic music exploded pop song conventions in a feverish search for emotional truth, died on Tuesday at her home in...
Gonna Take a Miracle is the fifth album by New York City -born singer, songwriter and pianist Laura Nyro, with assistance by vocal trio Labelle. It was released on Columbia Records in November 1971, one year after its predecessor Christmas and the Beads of Sweat.
Jun 9, 2017 · Laura Snapes tracks down Nyro’s closest collaborators to uncover the true story of a revolutionary singer-songwriter and her own thwarted career. “She was too soulful for radio,” laments ...
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More Than a New Discovery is the debut album by Bronx -born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. It was recorded during 1966 and released early in the following year on the Verve Folkways imprint of the Verve Records label.
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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.
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Jun 2, 2018 · Fifty years ago, Laura Nyro wrote a song that put momentous and terrifying events into words. Martin Luther King, an apostle of peace, had been shot down. There was grief, unrest and uprising...