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Singer Joan Osborne was born on July 8, 1962, in the town of Anchorage, KY, but it wasn’t until relocating to New York City in the early ’90s (to study at N.Y.U.’s film school) that she began to take a singing career seriously after singing Billie Holiday’s classic “God Bless the Child” at a local bar’s “open mic night.” In addition to Holiday, Osborne looked to such legendary vocalists as Etta James and Ray Charles as role models, as the up-and-coming singer decided not to cater to major record companies and formed her own label, Womanly Hips, which resulted in such releases as 1992’s in-concert Soul Show, among others. But eventually, Osborne decided to sign on with a major label, Mercury, which in turn issued the singer’s next release, ‘Relish’, in March of 1995. The album proved to have a long life, as almost a year after its initial release the track “One of Us” became a massive MTV and radio smash, camping out at the number one spot on the U.S. singles chart for two weeks and Relish eventually racked up sales of three million copies. Further tracks (“Right Hand Man” and “St. Teresa”) failed to match the success of Osborne’s first hit, but the singer still ...
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Top 10 Joan Osborne Songs
One Of Us
St. Teresa
What If God Was One of Us
Man In The Long Black Coat
Right Hand Man
Crazy Baby
Spider Web
Lumina
Pensacola
Ladder
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Top 10 Joan Osborne Albums
Relish
How Sweet It Is
Righteous Love
Breakfast In Bed
Pretty Little Stranger
Early Recordings
One of Us
Christmas Means Love
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