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| | Phoebe Snow: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com |
 | | Renowned for her elastic contralto and jazz-scat vocal gymnastics, singer Phoebe Snow was born Phoebe Laub on July 17, 1952 in New York City. |
 | | The youngest child in an upper-class New York family (her father, Richard Simon, co-founded the Simon and Schuster publishing company), Simon got her start in music as part of a duo with her sister Lucy (who later wrote the music for the Broadway show The Secret Garden). |
 | | The child of a music teacher, Janis Eddy Fink was born on May 7, 1951 in New York City; she studied piano as a child, and, drawing influence from Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday and Odetta, wrote her first songs at the … Read More » |
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