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Article: A Posthumous Push for Hit CDs; The Late Eva Cassidy's Vocals Enrich 'Imagine,' but a Depleted Inventory Is All Too Real [ Corrected 8/29/ 02 ]
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- The Washington Post
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- August 18, 2002
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Before she died of cancer in 1996 at age 33, Eva Cassidy had
finally resorted to putting out her own album. Apparently no label,
large or small, was interested in a singer blessed with a gorgeous
instrument but with no fixed, therefore marketable, style.
Washingtonians who heard Cassidy loved her, but there were too few of
them, and they weren't in proper positions of influence.
But miracles do happen, and in death Eva Cassidy became a platinum-
selling artist, a cult figure, a media darling -- all things she
never would have imagined or sought. Today, there are a half-dozen
Eva Cassidy CDs. And though she never played outside the Washington
area, she's now known worldwide, though England ...