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Qureshi, Arusa (10 March 2023). "The Lathums land second Number One album with 'From Nothing To A Little Bit More' ". NME . Retrieved 11 March 2023. Songbird‘ paved the way for an unparalleled posthumous career including further No.1 UK albums in 2002 and 2003 and a No.1 duet single in 2007. Eva Cassidy has achieved 10 UK Gold albums, a feat only matched by 10 other female artists including Madonna, Kate Bush and Kylie Minogue, 4+million UK album sales, 10+million worldwide album sales, more than 1.2 billion worldwide streams. Kelly, John (March 6, 2023). "Strings attached: A new Eva Cassidy album features an orchestra". Washington Post . Retrieved March 11, 2023.But it is only now that her dream has been realised, her new album, I Can Only Be Me, has been around seven years in the making. Cassidy album six-times platinum". The Press Association. November 2, 2009 . Retrieved November 10, 2009. a b c Ward, Alex (August 12, 2002). "In Death, A Shy Singer Finally Grabs The Spotlight; CD's Carry Eva Cassidy's Voice a Wider Audience". The New York Times . Retrieved June 3, 2008. Thursday 18th March 2021 is the 20th anniversary of Eva Cassidy’s ‘ Songbird‘ album becoming No.1 in the UK album chart. Originally released in 1998, 2 years after Eva’s death, it took a record-breaking 133 weeks to reach the top of the Official UK Album Chart, the most time any album has taken between release and becoming the UK No.1. The album spent a total of 6 months in the UK Top 10.

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At age 11, Cassidy began singing and playing guitar in a Washington-area band called Easy Street. [6] This band performed in a variety of styles at weddings, corporate parties, and pubs. Due to her shyness, she struggled with performing in front of strangers. [7] While a student at Bowie High School, she sang with a local band called Stonehenge. [4] During the summer of 1983, Cassidy sang and played guitar six days a week at the theme park Wild World. [4] Her younger brother Dan, a fiddler, was also a member of this working band. She enrolled in art classes at Prince George's Community College but dropped out after finding them unhelpful. [8] The Best of Eva Cassidy: "CHART WATCH #385". auspOp. September 10, 2016 . Retrieved September 11, 2016.At one point, Blue Note tried pairing her with a smooth jazz band on the label, Pieces of a Dream, for a few songs but the singer despised the result. A more pleasing proposal came from Apollo Records, run by civil rights activist Percy Sutton, a label connected to the vaunted Harlem-based theater. “They sent her a contract which meant she could have quit her day job (in a plant nursery) and gotten a yearly salary,” Biondi said. “That was a dream come true.” Two years later, as 2000 drew to a close, a video of Eva performing ‘ Over the Rainbow‘ from the Blues Alley concert aired on Top of the Pops 2 on BBC2 and was re-broadcast in January, 2001 following a wave of requests from viewers. The re-broadcast catapulted the ‘ Songbird‘ album to the top of the UK and Irish album charts on March 18, 2001, igniting a media storm in the U.S. where outlets from The Today Show to ABC World News Tonight to CNN weighed in on the phenomenon that was Eva Cassidy. By November of 2001, the fifth anniversary of her passing, ‘ Songbird‘ had been certified triple platinum in the UK for sales of more than 900,000. Kelly, John (6 March 2023). "Strings attached: A new Eva Cassidy album features an orchestra". Washington Post . Retrieved 11 March 2023. Sting on Cassidy (who had recorded a version of his song " Fields of Gold" in 1996, the year she died). [28] It was self-financed. Cassidy, incredibly, struggled to find a record label, and it was while the singer was promoting this, that she found out she was ill.

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a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "British certifications – Eva Cassidy". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved May 13, 2023. Type Eva Cassidy in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.a b c Huey, Steve. "Eva Cassidy: Biography, Albums, Streaming Links". AllMusic. All Media Guide . Retrieved June 10, 2017. Official Albums Chart Top 100 10 March 2023 - 16 March 2023". Official Charts. 10 March 2023 . Retrieved 10 March 2023. Musical charts life of songstress Eva Cassidy". Grantham Journal. March 13, 2008. Archived from the original on August 1, 2012 . Retrieved March 17, 2008. In total, nine posthumous albums have been released. The most recent, I Can Only Be Me, a collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra, was released in 2023 and charted at number 9 on the UK album chart. Farber, Jim (March 1, 2023). " 'A séance in song': How a new album fulfils one of Eva Cassidy's musical dreams". The Independent . Retrieved March 11, 2023.

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a b c d Harrington, Richard (November 17, 1996). "Echoes of a Voice Stilled Too Early". The Washington Post . Retrieved November 2, 2016. At that point, she was relatively unknown outside her home state, but a recording of her version of Songbird, written by the late Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac fame started to circulate and her reputation grew. Lawyer disqualified from continuing to represent Blix Street Records in suit over right to distribute early Eva Cassidy album, over objections of Cassidy's parents who were lawyer's clients too when lawsuit was filed, but now want to settle case even though Blix Street does not". Entertainment Law Reporter. October 2004. Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdfed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p.52. Those performances in a noisy club with chatter and diners present, would go on to be her first live solo album; Live At Blues Alley.Every year brings countless new uses of her music in films, television and beyond–from USA Ladies Figure Skating Champion Michelle Kwan skating to Eva’s ‘ Fields of Gold‘ during the closing ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City to the inclusion of her ‘ Songbird‘ performance in the film Love Actually (2003) to a 2007 BBC poll ranking Eva Cassidy 21st on a list of “100 Voices of the 20th Century” to the 67th Annual Emmy Awards using her signature version of ‘ Over the Rainbow‘ to underscore the 2015 award show’s In Memoriam tribute honoring the passing of major television industry figures during the prior year to the continuing use of her arrangements and recordings on talent shows such as The X Factor, The Voice, American Idol, America’s Got Talent and Dancing With The Stars. Cassidy had a relationship with Chris Biondo, but this had ended before her cancer diagnosis. [ citation needed] Illness and death [ edit ]