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Article: BRITAIN DISCOVERS LATE AMERICAN CHANTEUSE.(Eva Cassidy)(Brief Article)
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- Europe
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Delegation of the European Commission. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Picture, if you will, the following scene: It's a late 2000 winter morning, and several million listeners of the BBC's popular Terry Wogan Breakfast Show in the UK are hurriedly making their way through the daily morning routine when a song arrives on the airwaves seemingly from nowhere. The massed populous reaches for the nearest computer or telephone, and the BBC is instantly flooded with the same inquiry...all morning: "Who is that singing?" The song causing such a furor was "Over the Rainbow" (famously brought to life by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz) and the artist in question, one Eva Cassidy.
Born in 1963 in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Eva Cassidy grew up in a ...
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