Pop
United States
Eva Cassidy
Chi è Eva Cassidy
Eva Cassidy was a singer whose emotive versions of traditional standards and fusion of jazz, blues, pop, and folk continue to captivate fans worldwide long after her death in 1996.
• Cassidy was born and raised in the Washington, D.C., area. Her father taught her how to play the guitar at age nine and later formed a family ensemble band.
• While attending Maryland’s Bowie High School, Cassidy sang with a local band called Stonehenge, despite her intense shyness.
• She worked as a session singer throughout the early ’90s, providing backing vocals for acts like the go-go band Experience Unlimited and rapper E-40.
• In 1992, Cassidy and Chuck Brown, known as the “Godfather of Go-Go,” released a duet album titled The Other Side. It included standards like “Fever” and “Over the Rainbow.”
• She self-released the album Live at Blues Alley in 1996. The LP features songs by everyone from Sting to Billie Holiday.
• Cassidy died of melanoma in 1996 at age 33. Her solo debut studio album, Eva by Heart, arrived posthumously in 1997.
• The posthumous 1998 collection Songbird topped the UK albums chart and went six-times platinum after a live performance of “Over the Rainbow” aired on the British music show Top of the Pops 2.
• Two more posthumous Cassidy albums—2002’s Imagine and 2004’s American Tune—reached No. 1 on the UK charts. The former reached No. 1 in the US, while the latter went Top 5.
Eva Cassidy ha anche pubblicato musica come membro di Method Actor.
Influenzato da Eva CassidyEva Cassidy ha influenzato la musica di Lucy Clearwater, Miss Allie, Naomi Sharon e altro ancora.
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