Word: roslyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record executives tell the story with a straight face. It's last April, and one of their veeps comes in with demo tapes of an unknown girl singer, name of Roslyn Kind. Yawns all around. But then the voice comes on, strong and hard-edged, like all the Barbra Streisands in the world rolled up in one. Cynics straighten up in their chairs; jaded old ears listen for the flawed cadence, the flattened phrase that never comes. Another listen, then unanimity: Sign her up. Only then does the guy who brought the tapes spring his surprise...
...phrasing is similar because we feel a song the same way," Roz explains. "But she sings of love lost and I sing of first love." Further, she says, "I found my own style in a more contemporary bag-pop-rock." Roslyn belts out such non-Streisand pop-rock numbers as The Shape of Things to Come and John Lennon's and Paul McCartney's The Fool on the Hill with her voice well under control...
...Half sister, really. After Barbra's father died in 1943, her mother married Louis Kind, a Brooklyn tailor and Roslyn's father...
...Roslyn Heights...
...Roslyn Estates...