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Article: How Eva Cassidy helped me beat killer disease; EXCLUSIVE: Tribute singer Sheila Gott tells how she overcame illness that killed her idol
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- May 17, 2004
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TRIBUTE singer Sheila Gott kicked off a new career based on the
works of singing star and breast cancer victim Eva Cassidy - then
learned she too had the killer disease.
The news came as Gott started touring with her show of the US
legend's songs, which hits Glasgow next month.
Gott said: "I suppose my first thought was one of my own
mortality.
"On the one hand Eva Cassidy had become part of me, a real
inspiration and someone who, through her talent, had shown me the way
to move forward in my career.
"But on the other hand, she had died so young. It made me think -
and worry."
Cassidy died in 1993 aged 33, her international success arriving
posthumously after DJ Terry Wogan became a ...