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QUESTION Is the late rapper Tupac Shakur the only musician to have had more fulllength albums released in death than when he was alive? (He released four while he was alive and has had seven released since his murder in 1996.) ONE of the most astounding posthumous successes of recent times is that of singer/songwriter Eva Cassidy. Though painfully shy and retiring during her lifetime, she has since gained a reputation as a masterful interpreter of standards from virtually any genre, blessed with technical agility and a searching passion that cut straight to the emotional core of her material.
Record companies shied away from her, unsure of how to market her eclectic repertoire. Frustrated by this her manager, former boyfriend and music producer Chris Biondo, put out an album himself.See the full content of this document
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Songbird Lives On
Sadly, this was to be the only album released during her lifetime.
It was called Live At Blues Alley (1996) and was a compilation of live standards recorded in the Washingto...See the full content of this document
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