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Susannah McCorkle (4 January 1946 – 19 May 2001) was an American jazz singer much admired for her direct, unadorned singing style and quiet intensity.
McCorkle was born in Berkeley, California. She studied modern languages at the University of California, Berkeley. McCorkle began singing professionally after hearing recordings of Billie Holiday in Paris in the late 1960s. She nearly became an interpreter at the European Commission in Brussels, but moved instead to London in 1972 to pursue a career in singing. While in the UK, she made two albums which, although well received, enjoyed only limited circulation.
In the late 1970s, McCorkle returned to the United States and settled in New York City, where a five-month engagement at the Cookery in Greenwich Village brought her to wider public attention and elicited rave reviews from critics.
During the 1980s, McCorkle continued to record; her maturing style and the darkening timbre of her voice greatly enhanced her performances. In the early 1990s, two of the albums McCorkle made for Concord Records, No More Blues and Sábia, were enormously successful and made her name known to the wider world. She was recorded by the Smithsonian Institution which at the time made her the youngest singer ever to have been included in its p...
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Top 10 Susannah McCorkle Songs
The Waters Of March
A Felicidade (Happiness)
Isn't This A Lovely Day (To Be Caught In The Rain?)
Manha De Carnaval
I Thought About You
The Secret Of Christmas
For All We Know
The People That You Never Get To Love
Blue Skies
Someone To Watch Over Me
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Sabia
Someone To Watch Over Me - The Songs Of George Gershwin
From Broken Hearts To Blue Skies
From Bessie To Brazil
From Broken Hearts To The Blue Skies
No More Blues
I'll Take Romance
The Songs Of Johnny Mercer
Easy To Love: The Songs Of Cole Porter
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