She was one of the most influential singer-songwriters of her time in the late Sixties, but the industry never really got her ...

The first time I put Laura Nyro’s album, Eli and the Thirteenth Confession on a plastic grey turntable of the cheap record player (a toy with a plug), it wasn’t enough time to hear everything the ...

NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 1968: Singer/songwriter Laura Nyro poses for a portrait wearing a hat in November 1968 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) The show, “Soul ...

Laura Nyro shaped popular music in ways most listeners don’t realize. Her songwriting influenced generations of artists while her name faded from the spotlight. This breakdown looks at her originality ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composer/producer Charlie Calello knew he was in the presence of something special when he began working on the landmark Eli and ...

“There’s so much depth and passion and bravery in her work. She was authentic to the core.” --Sara Bareilles “We could build the dream with love.” –from Laura Nyro’s “Save the Country” It’s one of pop ...

In Monterey Pop, renowned documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker captured the 1967 pre-Woodstock rock festival oozing good vibrations and California sunshine, with celebrity emcees like the Rolling ...

Wainwright will interpret Laura Nyro’s songs inspired by Manhattan—in all the sweeping emotion, stirring poetry, and pioneering genre-defiance the city brought out in the infinitely ...

Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 352 pp., $25.95 Laura Nyro (née Laura Nigro) was an anomaly as a singer-songwriter in the late Sixties/early Seventies, the dawn of feminism’s rise. She wrote ...

Doug Peterson and Brad Wilber are back with a bite. By Caitlin Lovinger Marina Abramovic, Laurie Anderson and Meredith Monk are among the artists who will appear as part of National Sawdust+. By ...