Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...definitely don't want him to leave," saidKennedy School spokesperson Steven R. Singer...
Music: Cassandra Wilson is jazz's most exciting singer...
...know how hearts burn/ For love that cannot live yet never dies," Wilson sings, her rich alto conjuring feelings of midlife rust and heartbreak. Wilson's voice never pushes to hit any big, crass Star Search notes; this is a quiet album of submerged pain. Redbone, written by the singer, consists only of her molasses vocals, the twanging of a pedal steel guitar and African-tinged percussion. On the album's best track, a cover of Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey, Wilson reveals the song's soul not through vocal gymnastics, but by lingering caresses of each line. She creates...
...power of parenthood for Billy, a pettish, self-pitying idler and punk whom Hayden plays with an early-Brando sneer. Becoming a father may not make an abusive husband saintly; it often just gives him a new victim to pummel. A compelling actor, Hayden is not enough of a singer -- he loses his way rhythmically and sounds faint in the score's one modernist number, the anthemic Soliloquy ("my boy Bill"), which ends the first act. Sally Murphy is too bland to evoke sympathy as Billy's doormat of a wife, who can't see she's better off without...
Most Harvard rock musicians knew they wereinterested in music at early ages: Levine boughtthe KISS single "I Was Made For Loving You," atthe age of four, and has known Kreilkamp fromchildhood. Melanie Martinez '95 (lead singer forNeverlovers) was pictured on a girl scout cookiebox playing drums...