Phoebe Snow
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by riada
Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care.
Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
Is now a blackness that no stars redeem.
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Phoebe Snow (born Phoebe Ann Laub; July 12, 1950 – April 26, 2011) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for her 1975 hit "Poetry Man."
Snow was described by The New York Times as a "contralto grounded in a bluesy growl and capable of sweeping over four octaves."
She grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey and graduated from Teaneck High School.
As a teenager, she carried her prized Martin 00018 acoustic guitar from club to club around Greenwich Village, playing and singing on amateur nights. Her stage name is the same as a fictional advertising character created in the early 1900s for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, a young woman named Phoebe Snow, who appeared on boxcars traveling near her hometown.
She was briefly married to Phil Kearns, and, in December 1975, gave birth to a severely brain-injured daughter, Valerie. Snow resolved not to institutionalize her but instead care for her at home, which she did until Valerie died on March 18, 2007 at the age of 31. Snow's efforts to care for Valerie greatly and negatively affected her professional career, nearly ending it.
It was at the Bitter End club in 1972 that Denny Cordell, a promotions executive for Shelter Records, was so taken by the singer that he signed her to the label and produced her first recording. She released an eponymous album, Phoebe Snow, in 1974. Featuring guest performances by The Persuasions, Zoot Sims, Teddy Wilson, David Bromberg and Dave Mason, Snow's album became one of the most acclaimed debut recordings of the era.
Snow suffered a brain hemorrhage on January 19, 2010 and slipped into a coma, enduring bouts of blood clots, pneumonia, and congestive heart failure. Snow died on April 26, 2011 She was 60.
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Phoebe Snow (born Phoebe Ann Laub; July 12, 1950 – April 26, 2011) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for her 1975 hit "Poetry Man."
Snow was described by The New York Times as a "contralto grounded in a bluesy growl and capable of sweeping over four octaves."
She grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey and graduated from Teaneck High School.
As a teenager, she carried her prized Martin 00018 acoustic guitar from club to club around Greenwich Village, playing and singing on amateur nights. Her stage name is the same as a fictional advertising character created in the early 1900s for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, a young woman named Phoebe Snow, who appeared on boxcars traveling near her hometown.
She was briefly married to Phil Kearns, and, in December 1975, gave birth to a severely brain-injured daughter, Valerie. Snow resolved not to institutionalize her but instead care for her at home, which she did until Valerie died on March 18, 2007 at the age of 31. Snow's efforts to care for Valerie greatly and negatively affected her professional career, nearly ending it.
It was at the Bitter End club in 1972 that Denny Cordell, a promotions executive for Shelter Records, was so taken by the singer that he signed her to the label and produced her first recording. She released an eponymous album, Phoebe Snow, in 1974. Featuring guest performances by The Persuasions, Zoot Sims, Teddy Wilson, David Bromberg and Dave Mason, Snow's album became one of the most acclaimed debut recordings of the era.
Snow suffered a brain hemorrhage on January 19, 2010 and slipped into a coma, enduring bouts of blood clots, pneumonia, and congestive heart failure. Snow died on April 26, 2011 She was 60.
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Merle Greene Robertson, 97, American artist and archeologist
Hazel Dickens, 75, American bluegrass singer
Eldon Davis, 94, American architect, creator of Googie architecture
APR 23...
Phillip Shriver, 88, American historian and college administrator
Huey P. Meaux, 82, American record producer
Peter Lieberson, 64, American composer, complications of lymphoma
APR 24...
Marie-France Pisier, 66, French actress (The Other Side of Midnight), drowning
APR 25...
Joe Perry, 84, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
Don Lancer, 68, American radio news announcer, cancer
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Samuel Zoll, 76, American jurist and politician, Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts (1970–1973), cancer
Sadler's Wells, 30, American racehorse.
Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care.
Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
Is now a blackness that no stars redeem.
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