Laura Nyro (born Laura Nigro) (October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was an American songwriter and singer, one of the most influential musicians to emerge in the 1960s. October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years). ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... April 8 is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (99th in leap years). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... Ercole de Roberti: Concert, c. ...

She blazed the trail for – and directly influenced – future female singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, Phoebe Snow, and Rickie Lee Jones, among many others. Nyro’s style was a distinctive hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop, mixed with elements of jazz, folk, rhythm and blues, and rock. Her lyrics were sophisticated, first as a reflection of youth angst in her initial period (1966-1971) with later works concentrating on animal-rights issues, motherhood, and a growing concern for the human condition. She possessed a beautiful, angelic voice which could register tenderness, rage, and playfulness with equal ability. Nyro was also blessed with an instinctive sense of song arrangement and vocal arrangement skills, which revealed itself not only in her own material, but in her recordings of, as she called them, “the teenage heartbeat songs of my youth” and the occasional pop standard. These songs were interpreted by Nyro with her distinctive chord changes and vocal arrangements (she generally multi-tracked her own harmonies in the studio and later added live harmony singers in concert). Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician and painter. ... Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945 in New York City) is an American musician who emerged as one of the leading lights of the early 1970s singer-songwriter boom. ... Phoebe Laub (born July 17, 1952 in New York City) is a singer-songwriter, who performs under the stage name Phoebe Snow. ... Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8, 1954) is a vocalist and songwriter from the United States. ... The Brill Building (1930- ) in the United States is located at 1619 Broadway, in New York City, New York, just north of Times Square. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...

Born in the The Bronx, New York, of Italian-American and Jewish-American parents, Nyro was best known by the general public – and had the most commercial success – as a songwriter rather than a performer. Her best-known songs include "And When I Die" (made a hit by Blood, Sweat & Tears), "Stoney End" (covered by Barbra Streisand), "Wedding Bell Blues," "Stoned Soul Picnic," "Sweet Blindness," "Save the Country" (all covered by the Fifth Dimension), and "Eli's Coming" (a hit for Three Dog Night). Ironically, Nyro's own best-selling single was a cover of Carole King and Gerry Goffin's "Up on the Roof." The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of United States. ... Logo of Sons of Italy, which is the largest Italian American fraternal organization in the United States. ... A Jewish American (also commonly American Jew) is an American (a citizen of the United States) of Jewish descent or religion who maintains a connection to the Jewish community, either through actively practicing Judaism or through cultural and historical affiliation. ... Blood, Sweat & Tears was an American music group, formed in New York City in 1967, which fused jazz and rock or pop music into a hybrid of what came to be known as jazz-rock. They are considered, by and large, to be the first or among the first of... Barbra Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an iconic two-time Academy Award-winning American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, film producer and director. ... In physics and mathematics, a sequence of N numbers can be understood to represent a location in an N-dimensional space. ... Three Dog Night was an American rock and roll band active from 1968 to 1975. ... Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. ... Gerry Goffin (born February 11, 1939) is an American lyricist. ...

After her fairly straightforward debut album More Than a New Discovery in 1967 on Verve Folkways (later Forecast), a new contract with Columbia Records was initiated, which allowed Nyro more freedom and control. Her first Columbia effort, Eli and the Thirteenth Confession in 1968, was released to wild critical praise for the depth and sophistication of the performance and arrangements. The album’s merger of pop structure with inspired imagery, rich, multi-tracked Nyro vocals and an avant-garde set of jazz flavorings, remains one of the most important breakthrough works of the era. More Than A New Discovery is the debut album by Bronx-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Eli and the Thirteenth Confession is a music album by New York-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

Follow-up albums, New York Tendaberry (1969), and Christmas and the Beads of Sweat (1970) cemented Nyro’s credibility as an important artist and sparked a following of devoted fans, especially among fellow musicians who were often seen in the audience and backstage at her performances. New York Tendaberry is a music album by New York-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Christmas and the Beads of Sweat is the fourth LP by New York-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...

In 1971, she released an album – Gonna Take a Miracle – of her favorite "teenage heartbeat songs" with Labelle (Patti Labelle, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash) providing vocal harmonies. 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Gonna Take a Miracle is the fifth music album by New York-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. ...

The fundamentally shy Nyro was reportedly uncomfortable with attempts to mass-market her as a celebrity and, frustrated with a record industry becoming increasingly driven by commerce, Nyro announced her retirement from the music business at the age of 24. Five years later in 1976, however, she returned with an album of new material called "Smile". Nyro’s re-emergence work revealed a more mature artist of less intensity, but of deeper, more subtle and complex shadings. By this time, the experience of a failed marriage and motherhood – and an eventual, personal relationship with a female partner – provided additional life experiences which impacted her personally, and is reflected in her work. While this and many of her later releases lack much of the commercial accessibility of her earlier work, they maintain her high standard as a writer and arranger, and her undiminished ability as a superb vocalist. 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... An Iraqi girl smiles In physiology, a smile is a facial expression formed by flexing muscles most notably near both ends of the mouth, but also around the eyes. ...

Her low profile of this period was raised somewhat in 1989, with the release of Laura: Live at the Bottom Line, a recent, live recording which marked the beginning of a renewed series of live appearances. On this recording, Nyro sounds fresh and revitalized, performing a variety of old and new material with an excellent set of musicians. Her next release was Walk the Dog and Light the Light (1993), her first studio album in years, and her last for Columbia, co-produced by Gary Katz of Steely Dan production fame. A solid piece of work, it sparked further reappraisal of her place in popular music, and new commercial offers began to appear. Always protective of her integrity, she reportedly turned down some lucrative film-composing offers, although she did contribute a song to the modest Academy Award winning documentary "Broken Rainbow", a film about forced relocation of Native Americans. Also according to sources, both The Tonight Show and The David Letterman Show staffs were heavily pursuing Nyro for a TV appearance during this period, yet she turned them down as well, citing her discomfort with appearing on television (she only made a handful of early TV appearances and one fleeting moment on VH-1 performing the title song from “Broken Rainbow” on Earth Day in 1990). She never released an official video, although there was talk of filming some Bottom Line appearances in the 1990s. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Walk the Dog and Light the Light is the ninth studio album by Bronx-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... This article needs additional references or sources. ... This article is about the year. ...

Nyro died of ovarian cancer in Danbury, Connecticut on April 8, 1997 at the age of 49. In a sad coincidence, this was the same disease that claimed the life of her own mother, Gilda Nigro, who also was 49 at the time of her death. Ovarian cancer is a malignant ovarian neoplasm (an abnormal growth located on the ovaries). ... Nickname: The Hat City Location Location in Fairfield County, Connecticut Coordinates , Government Counties Fairfield County Mayor Mark Boughton (R) Geographical characteristics Area     City 44. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Her life partner had been Maria Desiderio.

She is survived by her son Gil, her father and her brother.

After diagnosis, in the months before her death, her old label Columbia Records – now owned by Sony – was planning a double-disc CD retrospective of material from her years at the label. To their credit, they involved Nyro herself, who selected the tracks and approved the final project. She lived to see the release Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro (1997), and was reportedly pleased with the outcome. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Posthumous releases include Angel in the Dark (2001), which include her impressive, last studio recordings made in 1994 and 1995, and The Loom’s Desire, a highly enjoyable set of live recordings with solo piano and harmony singers from The Bottom Line Christmas shows of 1993 and 1994. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

A biography of Nyro, Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro, written by Michele Kort, was published in 2002 by Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press.

Her life and music were celebrated in a 2005 BBC Radio 2 documentary, Shooting Star – Laura Nyro Remembered, which was narrated by her friend Bette Midler and included contributions from her one-time manager David Geffen, co-producers Arif Mardin and Gary Katz, and performers Suzanne Vega and Janis Ian. It was rebroadcast on April 4, 2006, at www.bbc.co.uk/radio2 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Suzanne Vega Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American songwriter and singer known for her poetic lyrics and eclectic folk-inspired music. ... This article is about the singer Janis Ian, for the character from the movie Mean Girls see Janis Ian (Mean Girls) Janis Ian (born on April 7, 1951) is a Grammy-winning American songwriter, singer and multi-instrumental musician. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Trivia Nyro was once considered as lead singer for Blood, Sweat & Tears after the departure of founder Al Kooper. The position was eventually taken by David Clayton-Thomas. Blood, Sweat & Tears was an American music group, formed in New York City in 1967, which fused jazz and rock or pop music into a hybrid of what came to be known as jazz-rock. They are considered, by and large, to be the first or among the first of... Mike Bloomfield (left) and Al Kooper (right) album cover Al Kooper (born February 5, 1944, Brooklyn, New York) is an American songwriter,producer, and musician, probably best known for organizing the group Blood, Sweat & Tears. ... David Clayton-Thomas (born September 13, 1941 in London (UK)) is a musician and singer. ...

Discography

Studio

• 1967 - More Than a New Discovery (later reissued as Laura Nyro, 1969, and as The First Songs, 1973)
• 1968 - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
• 1969 - New York Tendaberry
• 1970 - Christmas and the Beads of Sweat
• 1971 - Gonna Take a Miracle (with Labelle)
• 1976 - Smile
• 1978 - Nested
• 1984 - Mother's Spiritual
• 1993 - Walk the Dog and Light the Light
• 2001 - Angel in the Dark (posthumous album recorded 1994-1995)

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• 1977 - Season of Lights
• 1989 - Laura: Live at the Bottom Line
• 2000 - Live at Mountain Stage (recorded 1990)
• 2002 - Live: The Loom's Desire (recorded 1993-1994)
• 2003 - Live in Japan (recorded 1994)
• 2004 - Spread Your Wings and Fly: Live at the Fillmore East May 30, 1971

Compilation For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Season of Lights is the first live album by New York singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Live from Mountain Stage was the first posthumous album release by Bronx-born musician Laura Nyro and her third officially-released live album. ... This article is about the year. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• 1972 - Laura Nyro sings her Greatest Hits (released in Japan only)
• 1980 - Impressions
• 1997 - Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro
• 2000 - Time and Love: The Essential Masters

1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Impressions is the first compilation retrospective album by Bronx-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

External links

• Laura Nyro home page
• Laura Nyro fan site
• Laura Nyro One Child Born / Japanese Site

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