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Eva Cassidy

Undiscovered and relatively unknown when she died of melanoma at the age of 33 in 1996, Eva Cassidy became posthumously famous when BBC Radio 2 presenter Terry Wogan became smitten by her retrospective collection Songbird and gave it concentrated airplay. Tender versions of the standard Over The Rainbow and Sting's Fields of Gold, in particular, struck a chord and the album topped the UK chart and triggered interest in Cassidy's other previously neglected recordings. She'd started her career playing and singing with local Washington area bands Easy Street and Stonehenge and also ...