All Tracks – Eva Cassidy – YouTube
Born: February 2, 1963 Washington, D.C., U.S.
Died: November 2, 1996 (aged 33) Bowie, Maryland, U.S.
Genres Jazz – folk – blues
Occupation(s) Singer guitarist Instruments Vocals piano
Years active 1981–1996 Labels: Liaison Blix Street BLP
Associated acts: Chuck Brown
Eva Marie Cassidy was an American singer and guitarist known for her interpretations of jazz, folk, and blues music, sung with a powerful, emotive soprano voice. In 1992, she released her first album, The Other Side,
a set of duets with go-go musician Chuck Brown, followed by the 1996 live solo album titled Live at Blues Alley.
Although she had been honored by the Washington Area Music Association, she was virtually unknown outside her native Washington, D.C. She died of melanoma in 1996 at the age of 33.
Two years after her death, Cassidy’s music was brought to the attention
of British audiences, when her versions of “Fields of Gold” and “Over the Rainbow” were played by Mike Harding and Terry Wogan on BBC Radio 2. Following the overwhelming response, a camcorder recording of “Over the Rainbow”, taken at Blues Alley in Washington by her friend Bryan McCulley, was shown on BBC Two‘s Top of the Pops 2. Shortly afterwards, the compilation album Songbird climbed to the top of the UK Albums Chart, almost three years after its initial release. The chart success in the United Kingdom and Ireland led to increased recognition worldwide. Her posthumously released recordings, including three number-one albums and one number-one single in the UK, have sold more than ten million copies.[1] Her music has also charted within the top 10 in Australia, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.[2]
Early life: Born on February 2, 1963, at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C.,[3] Cassidy grew up in Oxon Hill, Maryland, and later Bowie, Maryland. She was the third of four children. Her father, Hugh Cassidy, is a teacher, sculptor, musician, former army medic, and world champion powerlifter of Irish and Scottish descent, while her mother, Barbara (née Kratzer), is a German horticulturist from Bad Kreuznach.[2][4][5] From an early age, Cassidy displayed interest in art and music. When she was nine, her father began teaching her to play the guitar, and she began to play and sing at family gatherings.[4]
At age 11, Cassidy began singing and playing guitar in a Washington-area band called Easy Street.[6] This band performed in a variety of styles at weddings, corporate parties, and pubs. Due to her shyness, she struggled with performing in front of strangers.[7] While a student at Bowie High School, she sang with a local band called Stonehenge.[4] During the summer of 1983, Cassidy sang and played guitar six days a week at the theme park Wild World.[4] Her younger brother Dan, a fiddler, was also a member of this working band. She enrolled in art classes at Prince George’s Community College but dropped out after finding them unhelpful.[8]
Throughout the 1980s, Cassidy worked with several other bands, including the techno-pop band Characters Without Names. During this period, she worked as a propagator at a plant nursery and as a furniture painter. In her free time, she explored other artistic expressions including painting, sculpting, and jewelry design.[8]
Music career: In 1986, Cassidy was asked by Stonehenge guitarist and high school friend, David Lourim, to lend her voice to his music project, Method Actor.[9] This brought her to Black Pond Studios, where she met recording engineer and bassist Chris Biondo. Biondo helped her find work as a session singer and later introduced her to Al Dale, who would become her manager. She sang back-ups for various acts, from go-go rhythm and blues band Experience Unlimited to rapper E-40.[10] Biondo and Cassidy, who were in a romantic relationship for a time, formed the five-piece “Eva Cassidy Band” with Lenny Williams, Keith Grimes and Raice McLeod in 1990.
They began to perform frequently in the Washington area.[4]
In 1992, Biondo played a tape of Cassidy’s voice for Chuck Brown, the “Godfather of go-go”.[11] It resulted in the duet album The Other Side featuring performances of classic songs such as “Fever“, “God Bless the Child,” and what would later become Cassidy’s signature song, “Over the Rainbow“. The album was released and distributed in 1992 by Liaison Records, the label that also released Brown’s Go-go albums. Brown originally intended to record an additional duet with Cassidy for his next solo album, but this was postponed due to ongoing negotiations between Dale and other labels for a solo deal.[10][12]
Cassidy’s unwillingness to narrow her stylistic focus to one genre hindered her chances of securing a deal.[13][14] After talks broke down, the two decided to record their own duet album. As a duo, they performed at the Columbia Arts Festival and opened for acts like Al Green and The Neville Brothers.[10]
“She was an angel, very humble and shy. She would listen more than talk…
I remember lots of times, we were playing and it was just empty and dead.
She seemed to like those nights, because there wasn’t as much pressure.
In fact, she’d be more relieved when hardly anybody was out there.”
—Cassidy’s bandmate Biondo on her anxiety in front of crowds.[15]
In 1993, Cassidy was honored by the Washington Area Music Association with a Wammie award for the Vocalist Jazz/Traditional category.[16] The next year she was invited to perform at the event and chose to sing “Over the Rainbow”. The Washington Times review of the event called her performance “a show-stopper”.[17] She took home two Wammies that night, again for Vocalist Jazz/Traditional and also for Roots Rock/Traditional R&B.[16]
For a brief period that year, Cassidy signed a deal with Blue Note Records to pair up with pop-jazz band Pieces of a Dream to release an album and tour the country. She sang two tracks in a mainly instrumental album. It was a musically unsatisfying experience for her.[10]
After having a potential contract with Apollo Records collapse when the label went bankrupt, Biondo and Dale decided that she should release her own live album.[10] On January 2–3, 1996, the material for Live at Blues Alley was recorded at Blues Alley in Washington, D.C. Due to a technical glitch on the first night of recording,[18] only the second night’s recording was usable, with 12 songs released on the resulting album. (The complete set of 31 songs recorded that night was eventually released 20 years later as Nightbird in 2015.)
Unhappy with the way she sounded due to a cold, she was reluctant to release the album. She eventually relented, on the condition that the studio track “Oh, Had I a Golden Thread”, Cassidy’s favorite song,[19] would be included in the release, and that they start working on a follow-up studio album.[8][10]
Her apprehension appeared unfounded as local reviewers and the public responded positively.[8] The Washington Post commented that “she could sing anything — folk, blues, pop, jazz, R&B, gospel — and make it sound like it was the only music that mattered.”[11] The subsequent studio album she worked on was released posthumously as Eva by Heart in 1997. In the liner notes of Eva by Heart, music critic Joel E. Siegel described Cassidy as “one of the greatest voices of her generation.”[8]
Death: In 1993, Cassidy had a malignant mole removed from her back. Three years later, during a promotional event for the Live at Blues Alley album in July 1996, Cassidy noticed an ache in her hips, which she attributed to stiffness from painting murals while perched atop a stepladder.[11] The pain persisted and X-rays revealed a fracture. Further tests found that cancer had spread to her bones, causing the fracture, as well as to her lungs.[20]
Her doctors estimated she had three to five months to live. Cassidy opted for aggressive treatment, but her health deteriorated rapidly.
On September 17,[20] at a benefit concert for her at the Bayou, she made her final public appearance, closing the set with “What a Wonderful World” in front of an audience of family, friends, and fans. Additional chemotherapy was ineffective, and Cassidy died on November 2, 1996 of melanoma, at her family’s home in Bowie, Maryland.[2][11][21] In accordance with her wishes, her body was cremated and the ashes were scattered on the lake shores of St. Mary’s River Watershed Park, a nature reserve near Callaway, Maryland.[2]
THE TRAGIC DEATH OF EVA CASSIDY Pete Mitchell/Getty Images
BY SANDRA MARDENFELD/OCT. 30, 2020
What’s New? – Eva Cassidy Web Site
Eva Cassidy restrains herself during the singing of her jazz, blues and gospel if you compare it with her studio-recordings.
She made eight albums in total. But tragedy struck on November 2nd, 1996, when she died of melanoma (skin cancer) after a long battle with the disease.
She loved music from an early age, particularly folk and jazz (as a girl, her favorite singer was Buffy Sainte-Marie ), and learned guitar from her father Hugh.
The sweet soprano of Eva Cassidy singing standards like “Over the Rainbow” feels both divine and sorrowful. Perhaps her life’s story insinuated its way into her lilting delivery. While her album, Songbird, sold more than five million copies worldwide — reaching platinum status six times in England and becoming certified platinum in the United States in 2008, according to Grunge News – Cassidy never knew of her success. She died of cancer in 1996, age 33.
The Washington-based singer received minimal attention during her life, according to The New York Times. She performed “in relative obscurity” with recordings that received “minimal radio play on this side of the Atlantic.” She released one album, a live jam from the Washington club Blues Alley that she financed and sold from her car to her hometown fans. She started performing there in the mid-’80s when she sang with soul singer Chuck Brown. Together they recorded an album titled The Other Side.
She also worked with Chris Biondo, a recording engineer and musician.
The music they created became the album Eva by Heart. By then, Cassidy’s cancer was spreading. Her first brush with cancer happened in 1992 when she saw a mole on her shoulder. That melanoma was removed, according to The Independent. “It was believed that the doctors had got whatever vestiges remained of the melanoma,” Cassidy’s father, Hugh, told the publication. Unfortunately, Eva made the mistake of not following up with her physicians.
Eva Cassidy – Who Knows Where The Time Goes – YouTube
SHE EARNED RECOGNITION POSTHUMOUSLY
Cassidy felt pain in her hip and was scheduled for replacement surgery. During her pre-testing, an X-ray showed that the cancer had spread to her lungs. For her final concert, she sang “What a Wonderful World.” At the time, Cassidy was undergoing aggressive chemotherapy. Two months later she was dead. Eva By Heart was released posthumously.
Bill Straw, president of Blix Street Records, became her fairy godfather. He received a tape of Cassidy’s Blues Alley session. “It didn’t take a genius to figure it out,” he told The New York Times. “The moment I listened to that tape,
I knew this was one of the best singers I’d ever heard.” Blix Street released her first nationally distributed album in 1998.
The popularity of Cassidy’s music grew slowly. It hit big in Britain first, gaining attention from a spot on the BBC Radio 2’s morning show. In late 2000, NPR’s Morning Edition did a feature on Cassidy, followed by a program on Nightline that spring. Momentum kept building and Cassidy’s story was shared by Billboard, Rolling Stone, and other publications. Olympic silver medalist Michelle Kwan used Cassidy’s version of “Fields of Gold” in her 2002 exhibition program.
A greatest hits collection, The Best of Eva Cassidy, was released in 2012. All these years later, Cassidy’s music lives on. Her rendition of “Time After Time” recently appeared on a Kay Jewelers ad, according to her website.
She might be gone, but she’s not forgotten.
Eva Cassidy – Songbird (acoustic) – YouTube
What a perfect song for 2021! Quietly thinking about the utter chaos throughout the world. War, Greed, Famine and Covid! Close your eyes and think of others across the Globe XoXo.
It’s just after midnight, Nov. 02, 2021, twenty-five years after Eva’s passing, and I wanted to write this vigil post commemorating Eva’s Quadrans-Centennial Anniversary and to celebrate her “Gift of Music” she left behind for us all. To me, it is the finest music ears can hear, and I thank God for those who were insightful enough to preserve it. I first heard Eva’s heavenly voice in Jan. of 2021, and I knew then, I’d found the Holy Grail of vocalists. Few artists ever caused me to weep hearing their music, but Eva evoked that level of emotion from me, repeatedly.
Somehow, Eva’s creative, humble spirit paired with her bold, vocal perfection made a spiritual connection with me unlike any singer/songwriter/musician before. It was like finding gold and then developing gold fever. I called it “Eva Fever.” For the past year, I’ve dug deep into Eva’s goldmine of music, and my obsession has grown song by song, all the while finding we are kindred spirits in music and spiritual beliefs. It’s been wonderful being able to read so many stories about her, and today, I’m even more in awe of Eva’s life and her musical skills. I don’t think I’ll ever get over “Eva Fever,” nor will I ever want to. You have inhabited this song and made Christine McVie’s masterpiece your own. Your voice soars like a songbird.
This song still slays me after all these years…
Lovely Ava sings an absolutely beautiful “Songbirds” heartfelt song!
Most people will miss their loved ones and love them even more when they have passed into the eternal spiritual soul afterlife and they are not here on earth to hear us anymore. We sometimes take for granted our loved ones when they are alive on earth and when they’re gone we miss them even more! Hope to meet up with our love ones in paradise rest in peace temporary place and eternal life in heaven with God and Jesus Christ to have happy endings in our final eternal spiritual souls lives and on where and who we will spend eternity with God and Jesus Christ in eternal life in heaven or eternal punishment in hell with the devil according to the Holy Bible Old and New Testament Scriptures book which the Holy Bible New Testament Scriptures book only applies and should be practiced in the current Christian history age for our eternal spiritual soul well being on earth, in paradise rest in peace temporary place, and then in eternal life in heaven to avoid the evil devil, torment temporary place and eternal punishment in hell with the devil! God Bless All The People Who Need God And Jesus Christ To Breathe The Breath Of Life On Earth And To Be In Eternal Life In Heaven With God And
Jesus Christ!
Many thanks go out to those who’ve preserved her memory.
Wonderful rendition.
Much better than her other performance of this Fleetwood Mac classic.
This captures the same emotional tapestry of Christine’s vocals
Is this Kirsten Joy on vocals? Songbird (Eva Cassidy) Amazing rendition…
A beautiful Christine McVie music composition and a Fleetwood Mac classic. Also made popular by American singer Eva Cassidy. SONGBIRD – FLEETWOOD MAC (Christine McVie)
~ Imagine ~ https://youtu.be/kGnfqRR509M
Most Beautiful Song Ever R.i.P.
For you there’ll be no crying For you the sun will be shining ‘Cause I feel that when I’m with you It’s alright, I know it’s right And the songbirds keep singing Like they know the score And I love you, I love you, I love you Like never before To you, I would give the world To you, I’d never be cold ‘Cause I feel that when I’m with you It’s alright, I know it’s right And the songbirds keep singing Like they know the score And I love you, I love you, I love you Like never before Like never before; like never before.
WHAT AN UNFAIR WORLD.
Eva Cassidy Greatest Hits Full Album | Eva Cassidy Best Of Playlist 2021 HD
Eva Cassidy’s album Songbird sold 5 million copies worldwide, reached six times platinum in England and was certified platinum in the United States in 2008.
By the time that happened, Cassidy had been dead for 12 years.
Eva Cassidy – YouTube Music According to the New York Times, Eva Cassidy died without a record contract. Her cause of death was a malignant melanoma that spread to her lungs and her bones. The singer had the melanoma removed in 1993, but failed to follow up with her doctor in the months afterward.
By 1996, she was experiencing pain in her hip. When she had it X-rayed, doctors learned the cancer had spread. She immediately started on aggressive therapy, but it was too late. She died just two months later.
Eva Cassidy – Posthumous Recognition (liquisearch.com)
Cassidy gave her last performance less than a month before she died.
She was bald from chemotherapy, her head covered in a black velvet cap, and she had to use a walker to get out on stage. Grab your tissues, because she sang “What a Wonderful World.”
Much of Cassidy’s music was released posthumously, and she has
since been recognized as “one of the greatest voices of her generation.”
Too late, of course, for a woman who always worked temporary jobs
and lived in rented apartments.
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Dr. O’Day, was also interviewed by Michael Brownlee from NBC 4, about Britain’s new study as a promising breakthrough for the treatment of severely ill coronavirus patients. Dr. O’Day believes this treatment should only be used for the sickest patients, suffering “massive inflammation” of the lungs. He cautions, it’s not appropriate for patients with early stage infections or milder symptoms as misuse in early infection may kill T-cells and allow the virus to further progress.
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Researchers hail a new cancer treatment that unlocks the body’s immune system. Researchers meeting in Chicago are hailing what they believe may be a potent new weapon in the fight against cancer: the body’s own immune system. A British-led study found that a combination of two drugs that helped allow the immune system to fight the cancer — Ipilimumab and Nivolumab — stopped the deadly skin cancer melanoma from advancing for nearly a year in 58% of the cases. The study was published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Melanoma, though a skin cancer, can spread to the lungs, liver, bone, lymph nodes and brain. Other studies have shown promise in treating lung cancer. The research is being presented in Chicago at the annual conference of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Those involved in the fight against cancer are divided as to just how excited to get over the promise of immunotherapy in battling cancer.
“Immunotherapy drugs have already revolutionized melanoma treatment, and now we’re seeing how they might be even more powerful when they’re combined,” said Dr. Steven O’Day, an expert with the American Society of Clinical Oncology. “But the results also warrant caution — the Nivolumab and Ipilimumab combination used in this study came with greater side effects, which might offset its benefits for some patients. Physicians and patients will need to weigh these considerations carefully,” O’Day said.
In the study, 36% of the patients receiving the two-drug combination had to stop the therapy due to side effects. And Nell Barrie, a spokeswoman for Cancer Research UK, while calling the results “encouraging” and “promising,” told CNN that much remains to be learned and the new drugs would not replace any of the existing cancer treatments. Surgery, she said, would remain vital. So, too, would chemotherapy and radiotherapy, she said.
She noted that researchers had yet to study the long-term survival rates for immunotherapy. And the side effects can include inflammation of the stomach and bowel serious enough to require hospitalization, she said. But Dr. James Larkin, the lead author of the melanoma study, called the results a game changer. “We’ve seen these drugs working in a wide range of cancers, and I think we are at the beginning of a new era in treating cancer,” Larkin told the Telegraph, a British newspaper.
‘Another weapon in the arsenal.’
Barrie said immunotherapy could offer hope to people with cancers that are otherwise difficult to treat, such as melanoma, advanced lung cancer or cancer that has spread throughout the body. “We’re looking at another weapon in the arsenal,” she said. At the heart of immunotherapy is that cancer — unlike most other diseases — is not an invader. It consists instead of the body’s own cells gone rogue. So the immune system is not programmed to target the cancerous cells because it does not recognize them as foreign.
The immunotherapy drugs, Barrie said, “work to switch the immune system back on.”
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Eva Cassidy – Over The Rainbow – YouTube
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