Susannah McCorkle
b. 1 January 1946, Berkeley, California, USA, d. 19 May 2001, New York City, New York, USA. In the late 60s, McCorkle lived for a while in Paris, France. It was during this sojourn that she heard Billie Holiday on records and decided to take up singing. Multilingual, she lived for a time in Italy, working as a translator and taking any singing jobs she could find. In 1972, she moved to the UK, singing in clubs and pubs and learning about what she had determined would be her future career. She also made two albums that, although well received, enjoyed only limited circulation. In the late 70s, McCorkle returned to the USA and settled in New York, where a five-month engagement at the Cookery in Greenwich Village brought her to wider public attention and elicited rave reviews from critics. She continued to record during the 80s, and her maturing style and the darkening timbre of her voice greatly enhanced her performances. By the early 90s, with the release by Concord Records of No More Blues and Sabia, two enormously successful albums, McCorkle made her name known to the wider world. Her linguistic skills enabled her to translate lyrics, notably the Brazilian songs on Sabia, and made her a likely candidate for international success. She consolidated her status in jazz with awards, including the 1989 New York Music Award, and was recorded by the Smithsonian Institute, that at the time made her the youngest singer ever to have be included in their popular music series. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, McCorkle also had several short stories published and, in 1991, worked on her first novel.

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  • The Waters of March
  • Manha De Carnaval
  • Love Walked In
  • The People That You Never Get to Love
  • I Got Rhythm
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