Phoebe Snow

Phoebe Ann Laub (17 de julio de 1950 - 26 de abril de 2011^[1]), más conocida por su nombre artístico, Phoebe Snow, fue una vocalista y cantautora estadounidense, descrita por The New York Times como una "contralto basado en el rugido del blues y capaz de abarcar cuatro octavas.".^[2]

Biografía

Anuncio para un concierto en 1975 de Jackson Browne y Phoebe Snow.

Nacida en New York City, New York,^[1] su álbum debut, producido por Phil Ramone, contó con Zoot Sims, Ron Carter, Teddy Wilson, Steve Gadd y Bob James, entre otros, mientras que su segundo álbum, también producido por Ramone, contó con algunos de los más cotizados músicos de sesión de la época, incluyendo además de Ron Carter y Steve Gadd, de nuevo, a Don Grolnick, Tony Levin, Ralph MacDonald, Hugh McCracken, Jerome Richardson, David Sanborn, Grady Tate, Richard Tee y John Tropea.^[3]

Discografía

1974: Phoebe Snow (Oro^[4])
1976: Second Childhood
1976: It Looks Like Snow
1977: Never Letting Go
1978: Against the Grain
1981: The Best of Phoebe Snow
1981: Rock Away
1989: Something Real
1991: The New York Rock and Soul Revue: Live at the Beacon
1994: Phoebe Snow (Gold Disc)
1995: P.S.
1995: Good News In Hard Times
1998: I Can't Complain
2002: Very Best of Phoebe Snow
2003: Natural Wonder
2008: Live

Referencias

↑ ^a ^b Thursby, Keith (April 27, 2011). "Phoebe Snow dies at 60; singer of 1974 hit 'Poetry Man'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 27, 2011.
↑ Abdella, Fred T. (2 de julio de 1989). «Singing Her Way Back to the Top». The New York Times. Consultado el 27 de abril de 2011. «It was the summer of 1974 and the voice was everywhere - a contralto grounded in a bluesy growl and capable of sweeping over four octaves on the slightest provocation into a gospel-charged upper range.»
↑ Second Childhood en allmusic Consultado el 2 de mayo de 2011
↑ Nash, Margo (June 22, 2003). "Still Singing, Still a Fan Of Trains", The New York Times. Retrieved October 10, 2007. "Her first record, Phoebe Snow (Shelter 1974), with the single Poetry Man, went gold, and the 22-year-old, who had been discovered performing in a Greenwich Village coffeehouse, shortly after graduating from Teaneck High School, found herself a sudden success."

Enlaces externos

Web oficial Archivado el 12 de noviembre de 2011 en Wayback Machine.
"Phoebe Snow, powerful singer of 1970s hit ‘Poetry Man,’ dies at 60". The Washington Post.

Datos: Q266911

[latimes-1] Thursby, Keith (April 27, 2011). "Phoebe Snow dies at 60; singer of 1974 hit 'Poetry Man'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 27, 2011.

[2] Abdella, Fred T. (2 de julio de 1989). «Singing Her Way Back to the Top». The New York Times. Consultado el 27 de abril de 2011. «It was the summer of 1974 and the voice was everywhere - a contralto grounded in a bluesy growl and capable of sweeping over four octaves on the slightest provocation into a gospel-charged upper range.»

[3] Second Childhood en allmusic Consultado el 2 de mayo de 2011

[4] Nash, Margo (June 22, 2003). "Still Singing, Still a Fan Of Trains", The New York Times. Retrieved October 10, 2007. "Her first record, Phoebe Snow (Shelter 1974), with the single Poetry Man, went gold, and the 22-year-old, who had been discovered performing in a Greenwich Village coffeehouse, shortly after graduating from Teaneck High School, found herself a sudden success."

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