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I Can Only Be Me

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Refusing to bend her music to the industry's conventions and expectations, Eva was known only within the DC area during her lifetime. She left behind one live album, a duet album, and various studio demos and live recordings. In these intervening 16 years, Eva's music has proven timeless and universal. Crossing all boundaries – musical, cultural, geographical – her voice survived and is finding new listeners every day in every corner of the earth. Local Singer's Career Takes Off After Death, Eva Cassidy's Story To Be Told In Hollywood". NBC4.com. November 2, 2006. Archived from the original on January 3, 2008 . Retrieved March 6, 2008. Holland, Bill (May 30, 2001). " 'Nightline' Boosts Cassidy". Billboard Bulletin, allbusiness.com . Retrieved March 6, 2008. More than 25 years after Cassidy's passing, her dream has finally come true. The 'new' I Can Only Be Me* album represents a kind of séance in song in which the late singer's original vocals have been paired with the London Symphony Orchestra via rich new arrangement." ( Jim Farber - the Independent)

Bakker, Johan (2012). Behind the Rainbow, the tragic life of Eva Cassidy. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-1-78038-231-9. ; winner of The People's Book Prize 2011/2012 On the 17th of September 1996 a young woman, accompanied by a few dozen family and friends, attended her own tribute concert in a small club in the Washington, DC area. Transcending the effects of chemo-therapy and morphine in that moment, the singer abandoned her walker and was helped onto the stage for what would be her final performance, What a Wonderful World. A few weeks later Eva Cassidy passed away, having been diagnosed with melanoma months earlier.Official Albums Chart Top 100 10 March 2023 - 16 March 2023". Official Charts. 10 March 2023 . Retrieved 11 March 2023. Farber, Jim (November 2, 2021). " 'One of the best singers ever': remembering Eva Cassidy, 25 years after her death". The Guardian. Archived from the original on November 6, 2021. Anderman, Joan (January 31, 1999). "Eva Cassidy's Gift". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on January 2, 2008 . Retrieved March 6, 2008.

She ended up with a number one album, her songs were used on film and TV, and she built-up a celebrity fanbase, who sang her praises. Farber, Jim (March 11, 2001). "Internet fuels singer's posthumous success". The Deseret News. New York Daily News . Retrieved November 2, 2016. [ permanent dead link] Qureshi, Arusa (March 10, 2023). "The Lathums land second Number One album with 'From Nothing To A Little Bit More' ". NME . Retrieved March 11, 2023.At that point, she was relatively unknown outside her home state, but a recording of her version of Songbird, written by the late Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac fame started to circulate and her reputation grew. a b c d e f g Dalphonse, Sherri (May 1, 2001). "Songbird". Washingtonian . Retrieved March 6, 2008. With more than 11 million in worldwide sales and critical acclaim such as the Wall Street Journal praising her "perfect pitch, impeccable timing and vulnerability" and USA Today citing her "emotional ability to reach the depths of any song," her unerringly tasteful sense of material continues to propel interest in her recorded work all these years later. The latest chapter in an unparalleled posthumous career, I Can Only Be Me is a landmark new collaborative album with the London Symphony Orchestra.

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