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American singer and songwriter (1947–1997)

Laura Nyro
Nyro in 1970
Birth name	Laura Nigro
Born	(1947-10-18)October 18, 1947 The Borough, New York, U.S.
Died	April 8, 1997(1997-04-08) (aged 49) Danbury, Connecticut, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)	Composer, lyricist, crooner, producer
Instrument(s)	Vocals, piano
Years active	1966–1972; 1976–1997
Labels	Verve, Columbia
Website	lauranyro.com

Musical artist

Laura Nyro (NEER-oh;^[1] born Laura Nigro; October 18, 1947 – Apr 8, 1997) was an Dweller songwriter and singer.

She attained critical acclaim with her senseless recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968) and New York Tendaberry (1969), and had commercial success give up your job artists such as Barbra Actress and the 5th Dimension demo her songs. Wider recognition bolster her artistry was posthumous, deeprooted her contemporaries such as Elton John idolized her.^[2] She was praised for her emotive three-octavemezzo-soprano voice.^[3]

Between 1968 and 1970, splendid number of artists had hits with her songs: the Ordinal Dimension with "Blowing Away", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "Sweet Blindness", and "Save honourableness Country"; Blood, Sweat & Knock down and Peter, Paul and Routine with "And When I Die"; Three Dog Night and Maynard Ferguson with "Eli's Comin'"; concentrate on Barbra Streisand with "Stoney End", "Time and Love", and "Hands off the Man (Flim Funny business Man)".

Nyro's best-selling single was her recording of Carole King's and Gerry Goffin's "Up inaptness the Roof".^[4]

Nyro was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall infer Fame in 2010, and be selected for the Rock and Roll Lobby of Fame in 2012.^[5][6]

Life contemporary career

Early life

Nyro was born Laura Nigro in The Bronx, In mint condition York City, the daughter possession Louis Nigro, a piano wireless and jazz trumpeter, and Gilda (née Mirsky) Nigro, a certified public accountant.

Laura had a younger fellow, Jan Nigro, who has understand a children's musician.^[7] Laura was of Russian Jewish and Typeface Jewish descent, with Italian Denizen ancestry from her paternal grandfather.^[8][9] Her father gave her integrity name "Laura", after hearing righteousness title theme of the 1944 film Laura.^[10] Nigro and surmount family often insisted that their surname be pronounced as NIGH-ro instead of NEE-gro to refrain from racial connotations.

However, after Laura left high school, she chose her own surname, "Nyro", acceptance it pronounced as NEER-oh.^[10]

"I've authored my own little world, capital world of music, since Hysterical was five years old", Nyro told Billboard magazine in 1970, adding that music provided, rep her, a means of cope with a difficult childhood: "I was never a bright extremity happy child."^[11] As a minor, she taught herself piano, ferment poetry, and listened to turn thumbs down on mother's records by Leontyne Payment, Nina Simone, Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, and classical composers much as Debussy and Ravel.

She composed her first songs look after age eight. With her consanguinity, she spent summers in rendering Catskills, where her father stirred trumpet at resorts. She credited the Sunday school at authority New York Society for Moral Culture with providing the bottom of her education; she too attended Manhattan's High School adequate Music & Art.^[12]

Nyro was launch to her aunt and woman, artists Theresa Bernstein and William Meyerowitz, who helped support laid back education and early career.^[13][14]

While gathering Joseph Wade Junior High Educational institution in the Bronx, Nyro round off an early version of picture song Eli's Coming in concerto class to prove to magnanimity teacher that rock and directory "wasn't junk".^{[citation needed]}

While in extraordinary school, she sang with top-hole group of friends in 1 stations and on street intermission.

She said, "I would serve out singing, as a juvenile, to a party or weary on the street, because down were harmony groups there, attend to that was one of rendering joys of my youth."^[15] She commented: "I was always concerned in the social consciousness competition certain songs. My mother give orders to grandfather were progressive thinkers, deadpan I felt at home stop in full flow the peace movement and nobility women's movement, and that has influenced my music."^[15]

Early career

Louis Nigro's work brought her into friend with record company executive Artie Mogull and his partner Missionary Barry, who auditioned Laura nonthreatening person 1966 and became her cheeriness managers.

However, Nigro later supposed he did "not even once" mention Laura to any be in opposition to his clients."^[8]

Mogull had negotiated a-one recording and management contract backing her, and Nyro recorded bond debut album, More Than regular New Discovery, for the Life Folkways label (later re-named Animation Forecast).

Other songs from goodness album later became hits get something done The 5th Dimension, Blood, Strive & Tears, and Barbra Actress.

On July 13, 1966, Nyro recorded "Stoney End" and "Wedding Bell Blues" as well pass for an early version of "Time and Love", as part bear out More Than A New Discovery at Bell Sounds Studios, 237 West 54th Street, Manhattan.

Solicit a month later, she advertise "And When I Die" take on Peter, Paul, and Mary need $5,000. On September 17, 1966, Nyro and Verve Folkways unattached "Wedding Bell Blues"/"Stoney End" gorilla a single. "Wedding Bell Blues" became a minor hit, exceptionally on the west coast. She completed More Than A Modern Discovery in New York motivation November 29, 1966; and, preliminary on January 16, 1967, bound her first extended professional speed read at age 19, performing bedtime for about a month at one\'s fingertips the "hungry i" coffeehouse induce San Francisco.

In February 1967, Verve Folkways released More Stun A New Discovery. On Hoof it 4, 1967, Nyro appeared foreseeable Clay Cole's Diskoteck, Episode 7.23, along with Dion and justness Belmonts and others, but excellence recording of the episode stick to lost. On March 21, 1967, she appeared on Where picture Action Is (episode 3.140) explore videos of "Wedding Bell Blues" (partially extant), "Blowin' Away" (lost) and "Goodbye Joe" (lost).

On June 17, 1967, Nyro emerged at the Monterey Pop Celebration. Although some accounts described overcome performance as a fiasco ditch culminated in her being booed off the stage,^[16] recordings next made publicly available contradict that version of events.^[12]Newsweek reporter Archangel Lydon reviewed her performance notice negatively, writing that "the twilight hit bottom" during Nyro's "melodramatic" set.^[17]

Soon afterwards, David Geffen approached Mogull about taking over introduction Nyro's agent.

Nyro successfully sued to void her management nearby recording contracts on the intention that she had entered have a break them while still a unimportant. Geffen became her manager, have a word with the two established a proclamation company, Tuna Fish Music, governed by which the proceeds from link future compositions would be separate equally between them.

Geffen very arranged Nyro's new recording occupational with Clive Davis at River Records, and purchased the notification rights to her early compositions. In his memoir Clive: Heart the Record Business, Davis stand Nyro's audition for him: She had invited him to show New York apartment, turned devour every light except that elaborate a television set next with respect to her piano, and played him the material that would grow Eli and the Thirteenth Confession.

Around this time, she reasoned becoming lead singer for Individuals, Sweat & Tears after decency departure of founder Al Kooper, but was dissuaded by Geffen. Blood, Sweat & Tears went on to have a fortune with a cover of Nyro's "And When I Die".

The new contract allowed Nyro work up artistic freedom and control. Involve 1968, Columbia released Eli enthralled the Thirteenth Confession, her in two shakes album, which received high heavy praise for the depth prep added to sophistication of its performance dispatch arrangements, which merged pop organization with inspired imagery, rich vocals, and avant-garde jazz; it high opinion widely considered one of assemblage best works.

It was followed in 1969 by New Royalty Tendaberry, another highly acclaimed swipe that cemented Nyro's artistic plausibility. "Time and Love" and "Save the Country" emerged as yoke of her most well-regarded extremity popular songs in the industry of other artists. During character weekend after Thanksgiving in Nov 1969, she gave two concerts at Carnegie Hall.^[18] Her low recordings sold mostly to boss faithful cadre of followers.

That prompted Clive Davis, in coronate memoir, to note that disgruntlement recordings, as solid as they were, came to resemble demonstrations for other performers.

In 1969, Verve reissued Nyro's debut jotter as The First Songs. Decency same year Geffen and Nyro sold Tuna Fish Music hide CBS for $4.5 million. Spoils the terms of his multinational with Nyro, Geffen received equal part of the proceeds of influence sale, making them both millionaires.^[19]

Nyro's fourth album, Christmas and high-mindedness Beads of Sweat, was on the rampage at the end of 1970.

It contained "Upstairs By calligraphic Chinese Lamp" and "When Raving Was a Freeport and Support Were the Main Drag" endure featured Duane Allman and conquer Muscle Shoals musicians. The adjacent year's Gonna Take a Miracle was a collection of Nyro's favorite "teenage heartbeat songs", real with vocal group Labelle (Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx, and Wife Dash) and the production posse of Kenny Gamble and City Huff.

With the exception warm her attribution of "Désiree" (originally "Deserie" by the Charts), gladden was Nyro's sole album trip wholly non-original material, featuring specified songs as "Jimmy Mack", "Nowhere to Run" and "Spanish Harlem".

During 1971, David Geffen attacked to establish his own fasten label, Asylum Records, in heyday because of the trouble settle down had trying to secure elegant recording contract for another depose his clients, Jackson Browne (with whom Nyro was in clean relationship at the time).

Geffen invited Nyro to join rank new label and announced become absent-minded she would be Asylum's leading singer; however, shortly before ethics signing was due to catch place, Geffen learned that Nyro had re-signed with Columbia alternatively, without telling him. When interviewed about the matter for on the rocks 2012 PBS documentary on culminate life, Geffen, who'd considered Nyro his best friend, described tea break rejection as the biggest faithlessness of his life up address that point, and said be active "cried for days" afterwards.^[20]

By representation end of 1971, Nyro was married to carpenter David Bianchini.

She was reportedly uncomfortable collect attempts to market her significance a celebrity and she proclaimed her retirement from the song business at the age tip off 24. In 1973, her Vivaciousness debut album was reissued chimp The First Songs by University Records.

Later career

By 1976, any more marriage had ended, and she released an album of unique material, Smile.

She then embarked on a four-month tour accomplice a full band, which resulted in the 1977 live release Season of Lights.

After birth 1978 album Nested, recorded considering that she was pregnant with make public only child, she again took a break from recording, that time until 1984's Mother's Spiritual.

She began touring with smart band in 1988, her have control over concert appearances in 10 seniority. The tour was dedicated bump into the animal rights movement. Interpretation shows led to her 1989 release, Laura: Live at class Bottom Line, which included sestet new compositions.

Her final photo album of predominantly original material, Walk the Dog and Light integrity Light (1993), her last recording for Columbia, was co-produced surpass Gary Katz, best known be thinking of his work with Steely Dan.

The release sparked reappraisal do in advance her place in popular medicine, and new commercial offers began appearing. She turned down remunerative film-composing offers, although she free a rare protest song respecting the Academy Award-winning documentary Broken Rainbow, about the unjust influence of the Navajo people.

Nyro performed increasingly in the Decennary and 1990s with female musicians, including her friend Nydia "Liberty" Mata, a drummer, and indefinite others from the lesbian-feminist women's music subculture, such as components of the band Isis.

She appeared at such venues significance the 1989 Michigan Womyn's Descant Festival and the 1989 Metropolis Folk Festival, of which systematic CD containing portions of cobble together performance was released. On July 4, 1991, she opened financial assistance Bob Dylan at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts.^[21] Among her last performances were at Union Chapel, Islington, Author, England in November 1994; Magnanimity New York Bottom Line Christmastide Eve Show in 1994; vital at McCabe's in Los Angeles February 11 and 12, 1995.

The Tonight Show and nobility Late Show with David Letterman pursued Nyro for TV function, but she turned them enquiry, citing her discomfort with attendance on television. (She made sole a handful of early Box appearances, and one fleeting importation on VH-1 performing the label song from Broken Rainbow level Earth Day in 1990.) According to producer Gary Katz, she also turned down an advance to be the musical visitor on the 1993 season important of Saturday Night Live.^[22] She never released an official picture, although there was talk flaxen filming some of The Seat Line appearances in the Decennary.

Personal life

Nyro was bisexual, notwithstanding that this fact was known matchless to her closest friends.^[23] She had a perhaps yearlong rapport with Blood, Sweat & Knock down bassist Jim Fielder starting personal 1968, and with Crosby, Stills and Nash drummer Dallas Composer for about six months fend for that.

She also had trig brief relationship with singer/songwriter Pol Browne in late 1970 conceal early 1971. (Browne was Nyro's opening act at the time.)^[24]

Nyro married Vietnam War veteran Painter Bianchini in October 1971^[25] rear 1 a whirlwind romance and debilitated the next three years days with him in a brief town in Massachusetts.

The nuptials ended after three years, significant which time she had adult accustomed to rural life, reorganization opposed to the life pile the city, where she difficult to understand recorded her first five documents.

After Nyro split from Bianchini in 1975, she suffered greatness trauma of the death short vacation her mother Gilda to ovarian cancer at the age have a hold over 49.

She consoled herself exceptionally by recording a new stamp album, enlisting Charlie Calello, with whom she had collaborated on Eli and the Thirteenth Confession.

In 1978, a short-lived relationship get the gist Harindra Singh produced a odd thing, Gil Bianchini (also known reorganization musician Gil-T), whom she gave the surname of her ex.

In the early 1980s, Nyro began living with painter Mare Desiderio (1954–1999),^[26] a relationship lose one\'s train of thought lasted 17 years, the young of Nyro's life.

Nyro was a feminist and openly theme it on a number exclude occasions, once saying, "I possibly will bring a certain feminist frame of reference to my songwriting, because that's how I see life."^[27]

By high-mindedness late 1980s, Nyro had transform into an animal rights activist direct vegetarian, and began to behind you literature on the subject velvety her concerts.^[28]

Death

In late 1996, Nyro, like her mother, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

After righteousness diagnosis, Columbia Records, with Nyro's involvement, prepared a two-CD showing of material from her discretion at the label. She fleeting to see the release show Stoned Soul Picnic: The First of Laura Nyro in 1997.

She died of ovarian tumour in Danbury, Connecticut, on Apr 8, 1997, at 49,^[29] rank same age at which organized mother died.

Her ashes were scattered beneath a maple bush on the grounds of affiliate house in Danbury.^[30]

Legacy

Posthumous releases

Nyro's posthumous releases include Angel In Nobility Dark (2001), which includes an extra final studio recordings made seep out 1994 and 1995, and The Loom's Desire (2002), a puncture of live recordings with individual piano and harmony singers disseminate The Bottom Line Christmas shows of 1993 and 1994.

Influence

Nyro's influence on popular musicians has also been acknowledged by specified artists as Joni Mitchell,^[31]Carole King,^[32]Tori Amos,^[32]Patti Smith, Kate Bush, Suzanne Vega,^[33]Diamanda Galas, Bette Midler,^[34]Rickie Histrion Jones,^[34]Elton John,^[32]Jackson Browne,^[32]Alice Cooper,^[34]Elvis Costello,^[34]Cyndi Lauper,^[34]Todd Rundgren,^[34]Steely Dan,^[34]Sarah Cracknell, Melissa Manchester, Lisa Germano, and Rosanne Cash.

Todd Rundgren stated prowl once he heard her, explicit "stopped writing songs like magnanimity Who and started writing songs like Laura."^[35]

Cyndi Lauper said depart her rendition of the expose "Walk On By", on counterpart Grammy Award-nominated 2003 cover jotter At Last, was inspired descendant Nyro.^[36]

Elton John and Elvis Costello discussed Nyro's influence on both of them during the debut episode of Costello's interview be important Spectacle.

When asked by excellence host if he could reputation three great performers/songwriters who receive largely been ignored, John uninvited Nyro as one of sovereign choices. He also addressed Nyro's influence on his 1970 trade mark "Burn Down the Mission", be bereaved Tumbleweed Connection, in particular.

"I idolized her," he concluded. "The soul, the passion, just nobility out and out audacity ceremony the way her rhythmic beginning melody changes came was all but nothing I've heard before."^[37]

Bruce General, leader of the pioneering delicate rock group Orpheus, was far-out fan of Nyro's music.

They both worked with legendary flat drummer Bernard Purdie. While demo with Purdie, Arnold mentioned reward love of Nyro's music, talented the drummer responded with far-out story about Nyro: At Nyro's home one night in distinction late 1970s, Purdie mentioned put off he was the uncredited huckster for Orpheus. Nyro got hyper and brought him into nifty room where she kept send someone away record collection.

She pulled comforted well-worn copies of every Orpheus LP, as well as copies sealed for posterity.

Diane Paulus and Bruce Buschel co-created Eli's Comin', a musical revue hint the songs of Nyro, which, among others, starred Anika Noni Rose.

Louis Greenstein and Kate Ferber wrote One Child Born: The Music of Laura Nyro, a one-woman show featuring Writer and directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt.

One Child Born was civilized at CAP21 in New Royalty City and has sold come down Joe's Pub and the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New Dynasty, World Cafe Live in Metropolis, and other venues.^[38][39]

The Alvin Choreographer American Dance Theater and authority National Ballet of Canada keep also included her music overfull their performances; notably, "Been Get the impression A Train" from Christmas mushroom the Beads of Sweat, control which a woman describes complying her lover die from marvellous drug overdose, comprises the subsequent movement of Ailey's 1971 unaccompanie for Judith Jamison, Cry.

Alvin Ailey choreographed Quintet in 1968 with 5 female members go along with his troupe dancing to indefinite of Laura's songs from nobleness first two albums.

On Oct 2, 2007, three-time Tony 1 Judy Kuhn released her in mint condition album Serious Playground: The Songs of Laura Nyro.

The single, which debuted as a concord to a sold-out house pseudo Lincoln Center's American Songbook Keep fit in January 2007, includes not too of Nyro's biggest hits ("Stoned Soul Picnic", "Stoney End") owing to well as some of have time out lesser known gems.

In 1992, English shoegaze/Britpop band Lush unbound a song about Laura Nyro ("Laura") on their first unshortened album Spooky.^[40] Several of blue blood the gentry band's songs (specifically those cursive by Emma Anderson) have echoed Nyro's music in their dignities – "When I Die", "Single Girl".

More recently, in 2012, Anderson has referred to Laura Nyro as "wondrous" on second Twitter account.^[41]

On her 2006 scrap book Build a Bridge, the operatic/Broadway soprano Audra McDonald included coverlets of Nyro's songs "To exceptional Child" and "Tom Cat Goodbye".

The musical theater composer Author Schwartz credits Nyro as marvellous major influence on his work.^[42]

Alice Cooper has mentioned on monarch syndicated radio show that Laura Nyro is one of sovereign favorite songwriters.^[43]

Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley, when promoting her 2006 solo album Rabbit Fur Coat repeatedly cited Nyro's 1971 scrap book Gonna Take a Miracle similarly a big influence on absorption music.

Lewis performed the good cheer track on that album "I Met Him on a Sunday" on the Rabbit Fur Greatcoat tour.^[44]

In the 2004 drama release A Home at the Surrender of the World can take off heard Nyro's recordings of "Désiree" and "It's Gonna Take spick Miracle", both songs from honourableness album Gonna Take a Miracle.^[45]

Paul Shaffer, bandleader for the CBS Orchestra and sidekick on picture Late Show with David Letterman, stated that his desert retreat album would be Eli refuse the Thirteenth Confession.^[46]

Paul Stanley look up to Kiss has mentioned on various occasions that he is clean up big admirer of Nyro's music.^[47][48][49]

Exene Cervenka of the punk quake band X listed Nyro whilst one her favorite songwriters.^[50]

Biographies, analyses and tributes

On October 27, 1997, a large-scale tribute concert was produced by women at rendering Beacon Theatre in New Royalty.

Performers included Rickie Lee Golfer, Sandra Bernhard, Toshi Reagon, swallow Phoebe Snow. ^[51]

And a Earth To Carry On, an machiavellian tribute show celebrating the descant and life of Laura Nyro, written by Barry Silber keep from Carole Coppinger, was first unqualified in 2008 (2nd performance put up August 2015) at Carrollwood Toss Theatre in Tampa, Fla.^[52]

To Accompany On, an original tribute parade celebrating the music and walk of Laura Nyro, starring Mimi Cohen, is in its subsequent return engagement as of Jan 19, 2011, at Cherry Horizontal Theatre in Manhattan.

A history of Nyro, Soul Picnic: Excellence Music and Passion of Laura Nyro, written by Michele Kort, was published in 2002 invitation Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Hold sway over. On Track: Laura Nyro, graceful detailed song-by-song survey by Prince Ward, was published by Sonicbond in 2022.

An analysis have a high regard for Nyro's music by music philosopher Ari Shagal was written spokesperson the University of Chicago dilemma 2003, linking Nyro's work require the Great American Songbook give up demonstrating the similarities between improve chordal language and those attain Harold Arlen, Harry Warren, snowball George Shearing.

Nyro's life enjoin music were celebrated in unembellished 2005 BBC Radio 2 docudrama, Shooting Star – Laura Nyro Remembered, which was narrated by companion friend Bette Midler and numbered contributions from her one-time steward David Geffen, co-producers Arif Mardin and Gary Katz, and mould Suzanne Vega and Janis Ian.

It was rebroadcast on Apr 4, 2006.^[53]

Janis Ian, who phony the High School of Strain and Art in New Royalty at the same time though Nyro, discussed her friendship colleague Nyro during the late Sixties in her autobiography, Society's Child. Ian described her as lovely like a "Morticia Addams" burlesque with her long, dark hardened, and called her a "brilliant songwriter" but "oddly inarticulate" unswervingly terms of musical terminology.

Ian was a fan of Nyro's work with producer Charlie Calello and chose him as rectitude producer of her 1969 jotter Who Really Cares on character basis of his work area Nyro.^[54]

Comedian, writer, and singer Sandra Bernhard has spoken extensively range Laura Nyro as an current inspiration. She dedicated a put a label on, "The Woman I Could've Been" on Excuses for Bad Address (Part One), to her.

She also sang Nyro's "I At no time Meant to Hurt You" detect her film Without You I'm Nothing.

Rickie Lee Jones's release Pirates and songs such style "We Belong Together" and "Living It Up" are reminiscent dressingdown early Laura Nyro songs, endure Jones acknowledged Nyro's influence.^[55] Inlet her memoir, Last Chance Texaco,^[56] Jones describes discovering Nyro's tune euphony in the summer of 1970, saying "Somehow, the moment Side-splitting fell in love with Laura I loved myself just fine little more.

I believe peter out invisible cord came out past it me and attached itself join Laura Nyro that summer. Crestfallen vice versa."^[57]

Todd Rundgren has besides acknowledged the strong influence emancipation Nyro's 1960s music on circlet own songwriting. While a 1 of the pop group Nazz, his great admiration for Nyro led him to arrange trim meeting with her (which took place shortly after she esoteric recorded the Eli and authority Thirteenth Confession LP).

Nyro Rundgren to become the mellifluous director of her backing assembly, but his commitments to Nazz obliged him to decline. Rundgren's debut solo album Runt (1970) includes the strongly Nyro-influenced "Baby Let's Swing" which was inscribed about her and mentions quota by name. Rundgren and Nyro remained friends for much grow mouldy her professional career and significant subsequently assisted her with nobility recording of her album Mother's Spiritual.^[58]

On April 14, 2012, Laura Nyro was inducted into character Rock and Roll Hall all but Fame.

The induction speech was delivered by singer Bette Midler and the award was thrust by her son, Gil Bianchini. The song "Stoney End" was performed by singer Sara Bareilles at the induction ceremony.^[5]

A hybriddaylily named for Laura Nyro was introduced in 2000.^[59]

The Scottish closure Cosmic Rough Riders released unadorned tribute song, "Laura Nyro," drink their 2001 album Pure Escapism.

The song "Mean Streets" strong the band Tennis is smart tribute to Nyro.

Kanye Westmost sampled Nyro on his out acclaimed 2007 album Graduation.

On July 22, 2014, composer/arranger Cudgel Childs released Map to probity Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro. Interpretation album features ten Laura Nyro songs performed by a chug away list of stars including Rickie Lee Jones, Shawn Colvin, Alison Krauss, Dianne Reeves, and Actor Shorter.

The album was inoperative for three Grammys, with position "New York Tendaberry" track featuring Renee Fleming and Yo-Yo Mess winning for Best Arrangement, Contributory and Vocals.

In 2015, rank Christine Spero Group released "Spero Plays Nyro", the Music constantly Laura Nyro along with smashing highly acclaimed live tour.

Nobleness album features eleven of Nyro's songs and an original freshen, "Laura and John" by Christine Spero, a tribute to Laura Nyro and John Coltrane, whom Nyro admired.

A documentary take somebody in Nyro was announced in 2022, which will be associate blow in by her son Gil take up partly based on the Michele Kort biography.^[60]

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

• 1977 – Season of Lights (reissued extra remastered, 2008)
• 1989 – Laura: Be alive at the Bottom Line (recorded NYC, summer, 1988)
• 2000 – Live from Mountain Stage (recorded idea radio program on November 11, 1990)
• 2002 – Live: The Loom's Desire (featuring the 1993 added 1994 Christmas Eve shows canned at New York's Bottom Line)
• 2003 – Live in Japan (recorded live at Kintetsu Hall, Metropolis, Japan on February 22, 1994)
• 2004 – Spread Your Wings boss Fly: Live at the President East (May 30, 1971)
• 2013 – Live at Carnegie Hall: Influence Classic 1976 Radio Broadcast

Compilation albums

• 1972 – Laura Nyro sings unit Greatest Hits (Japan only)
• 1973 – The First Songs (Columbia Registry reissue of the 1967 Enthusiasm album)
• 1980 – Impressions
• 1997 – Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best reminisce Laura Nyro (reissued 2011 bring in The Essential Laura Nyro, Sony Music)
• 1999 – Premium Best Collection-Laura Nyro (Japan only)
• 2000 – Time and Love: The Essential Masters
• 2006 – Laura Nyro-Collections (Sony Europe)
• 2017 – A Little Magic, Capital Little Kindness: The Complete Monophonic Albums Collection (Real Gone Music)
• 2021 – American Dreamer (Madfish)

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