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Artist
Susannah McCorkle
12+ albums
jazzfemale vocalistsvocal jazzjazz vocalSmooth Jazz
about
Susannah McCorkle (1 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 popular music series. McCorkle played Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Halls five times and Carnegie Hall three times, and was featured soloist with Skitch Henderson and the 80-piece New York Pops
top songs
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The Waters Of March
52,6262A Beautiful Friendship
11,2763A Felicidade (Happiness)
9,7454Manha De Carnaval
8,2195For All We Know
7,7036Isn't This A Lovely Day (To Be Caught In The Rain?)
7,4597Someone To Watch Over Me
6,4878I Thought About You
6,2119The People That You Never Get To Love
5,82610How Little We Know
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