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Her voice was perfectly suited to sing blues, folk and more. The world lost a captivating singer with Eva Cassidy's passing in 1996 to cancer. Virtually unknown then outside the Washington-DC area (her home), Eva is now gaining much deserved renown now in the Internet age. Time After Time was one of our first Eva Cassidy purchases and we were not disappointed. Sample the album and hear for yourself what you are missing out on.
Eva sings like an angel. I get goosebumps every time I listen. Her voice is just so pure.
I love all music recorded by Eva Cassidy and am trying to learn guitar similar to her recordings. What a sad business she had to leave us so soon.
I tell that to people all the time. I just purchased the book, "Songbird." I can't wait to read all about her life.To family and friends of Eva Cassidy, my heart goes out to you. I was introduced to Eva Cassidy's music about 5/6 years ago. What a JOY that would have been. She lives on through all of us who know that she has the best voice, ever. She is my alltime favorite and I listen to every kind of music. I am probobly going to purchase the remaining CDs.
I hope the world gets to experience her. As I have read in all the reviews, she has the most amazing voice ever. A beautiful woman and a beautiful voice. I so miss the part of never being able to see her live, in concert. I love all the songs on these two CDS, but my favorites are: Over the Rainbow, Fields of Gold, etc. I get emotional every time I listen to her and sometimes just thinking about her. Amazing,soulfull,she'll give you wonderful chills.
From track to track, her voice may be reminiscent of Sandy Denny, Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, or even Aretha Franklin. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Eva Cassidy was a minor celebrity on the Maryland-D.C. Unlike bigger stars with smaller talents, Eva did not aggressively seek the limelight, but was content to sing whatever she liked, a trait that made her difficult to pigeonhole for the corporate packagers of pop. Her voice possessed extraordinary versatility and effortless grace: Alternately powerful and intimate, equally at home with folk, blues, jazz, soul, or show tunes. She shares with Allison Krause an almost painful vocal beauty, simplicity, purity and lack of adornment or showiness. She seemed to be on the verge of stardom when she died, far too young, of metastatic melanoma in 1996 at age 33.
All of her songs are covers or renderings of traditional songs. club circuit, with a small but devoted coterie of fans. Eva was not a songwriter. She left behind a relatively small body of work cobbled together from studio and club recordings. But her popularity, against all odds, has continued to grow since her untimely death, and more than a decade later, Eva Cassidy is still winning fans. Her gift was not originality but perspicacity: She had an uncanny ability to penetrate to the essence of the music and communicate that in her performance.
The instrumental accompaniments on these mostly studio tracks are almost perfectly suited to her voice in their simplicity.
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