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Connie Converse
12+ albums
folkacousticsinger-songwriterfemale vocalistsamerican
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Connie Converse (born Elizabeth Eaton Converse in Laconia, New Hampshire, on 3 August 1924; disappeared August 1974) was an American singer-songwriter and musician,who was active in New York City in the 1950s, with her work amongst the earliest known recordings in the singer-songwriter genre of music. In 1974, Converse left her family home in search of a new life and was not seen or heard from again. Despite the obscurity of her music during her lifetime, her work gained recognition after it was featured on a 2004 radio show. In March 2009, a compilation album of her work, How Sad, How Lovely, was released. The middle child of three siblings, Converse was bookish and described by most who knew her to be a polymath. She attended Mt. Holyoke College on an academic scholarship beginning in 1942, studied French, and wrote for several campus publications. By 1944 she decided to leave college, at which point the records of her whereabouts are sparse until about 1949, when she made her way to New York City. There were two major developments during Converse's time in New York. The first was her procurement of her nickname “Connie.” It is unclear how or why or when exactly, but the name stuck. The second was Converse’s burgeoning interest in playing and writing music, first for guitar and later for piano. No doubt this stemmed from her love of poetry, as many of her earliest songs were poems that she had written and then set to music. The songs became instant hits with her fa
