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Laura Nyro is tagged as: singer-songwriter, female vocalists, folk, soul, 70s

Laura Nyro (born Laura Nigro; Oct 18, 1947 – Apr 8, 1997) was an American singer-songwriter.
She directly influenced singer-songwriters such as Joni Mitchell, Todd Rundgren, Carly Simon, Phoebe Snow, Elton John, and Rickie Lee Jones. 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 voice which could register tenderness, rage, and playfulness with equal ability and had an instinctive sense of song arrangement and vocal arrangement skills. This 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).
Born in the Bronx, New York, of Italian-American and Jewish-American parents, Nyro was best known by the general public – and had t...
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Top 10 Laura Nyro Songs
Stoned Soul Picnic
Lu
Wedding Bell Blues
Luckie
Sweet Blindness
Emmie
And When I Die
Timer
Poverty Train
Save the Country
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Top 10 Laura Nyro Albums
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
The First Songs
New York Tendaberry
Gonna Take a Miracle
Angel in the Dark
Christmas and the Beads of Sweat
Smile
Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro
Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro (disc 2)
Spread Your Wings and Fly: Live at the Fillmore East May 30, 1971
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