Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MAYBE THIS IS THE LIBERATION OF SUZANNE VEGA. Hearing DNA's hip-hop remix of her popular tune Tom's Diner has obviously encouraged the breathy folk singer to venture beyond the safety of her acoustic guitar. Her latest album, 99.9 F degrees, is a bold experiment in both verse and technology, with Vega's haunting images now pegged to electronic percussion and warped-sounding keyboards. Two of the more raucous songs, Rock in This Pocket and Fat Man and Dancing Girl, are even hot enough to hit the dance circuit. But unvarnished Vega fans need not fret: the album...
...bands showed considerable pop potential. Juliana Hatfield played three songs in Billy-Bragg-singer-with-electric-guitar fashion. Her guitar-playing was accomplished and her sugary soprano appealing. But her lyrics failed to achieve the emotional power of the music. "My Sister" and "Ugly" revealed glimmers of a sarcastic edge to her writing, but they still seemed unbelievably shallow. In any case, look for Hatfield on MTV--before midnight--in the near future...
...BOTTOM LINE: A lilting, jazz-inflected homage from one great singer to another...
...pinnacle of his craft. Bennett, at this time, was enjoying significant success on his own, and though his celebrity missed the mythic dimension of Sinatra's, he did not lack for proper respect. Sinatra often singled him out for special praise and on occasion even called him his favorite singer...
...Frank is untainted by nostalgia, but from the opening song, Time After Time, through the last, I'll Be Seeing You, there is a continual undercurrent of melancholy, a gentle mood of loss and time remembered. Not better times, necessarily, and not better music, but a time when a singer could sing from a certain elegance of the heart. That may be what whole generations heard in Sinatra and what so many singers learned from him. And that's what Tony Bennett has done here: said thanks, brilliantly...