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| Eva Cassidy |
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"I really like to create the sound of a choir the most. If you could see what the sound of it looks like when I shut my eyes and listen, you'd see the sound as angels spanning across the universe."
-Eva Cassidy
| Date of Birth: February 2, 1963 |
| Birthplace: Oxon Hill, Maryland, near Washington D.C |
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| Though she barely broke out of the Washington D.C. music scene during her lifetime, Eva's music has become hugely successful, especially in England. |
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| Eva's talent and good spirit were captivating and unique, even if she is no longer able to share them with us. |
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Eva Cassidy's tragically short life began on February 2, 1963, in Oxon Hill, Maryland, near Washington D.C. She grew up there, and in Bowie, Maryland. She showed an aptitude for art early on, and, at around age 9, a serious love of music developed. Although her father, Hugh Cassidy, earned his living as a special education teacher, he was also a bassist, cellist and sculptor. He taught Eva the rudiments of guitar, and soon formed a family folk group with Eva's brother Danny on fiddle. It quickly became clear that Eva had a gifted singing voice.
As youngsters, she and Danny got a regular gig playing country music at a local amusement park. It was good practice, but Eva, a shy and sensitive child, found performing too stressful and opted out. She would continue singing in high school, mostly with a pop/rock group called Stonehenge, and upon graduating, began to study art at a local community college.
Eva soon grew disenchanted and impatient with her studies, finding that she wasn't really learning anything, and began working at a plant nursery instead. In 1986, her old friend David Lourim persuaded her to be a backup vocalist in his band, Method Actor. At the studio she met producer Chris Biondo, whom she would work with on many occasions as a backup singer, and would later date.
With Biondo, Eva flexed her skills in a wide variety of musical styles, including rap and Washington D.C.'s regional jazz-funk style known as go-go. At Biondo's urging, she recorded on her own here and there, and also began to overcome her reservations about performing solo.
Around 1990 Biondo played some of Eva's demos for Chuck Brown, the D.C. legend who had masterminded the go-go sound. Brown had long wanted to do more jazz and soul material, and found in Eva's interpretations the perfect match for his voice. Eva Cassidy and Chuck Brown soon recorded an album together entitled The Other Side, which was released in 1992 on a local label. The pair performed frequently in the D.C. area, and built up something of a following.
Meanwhile, Eva's manager Al Dale worked at bringing her voice to the rest of the world. Many a record label was interested, but they all found her repertoire, which included jazz, blues, folk, R&B, and rock songs, too broad to market. The jazz label, Blue Note, did recruit her for a stint with the jazz/pop group Pieces of a Dream, but after a single and a tour in 1994, Eva decided she didn't like their sound and returned home. |
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