Soul Picnic
Subtitle: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: April 3, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780312209414
Subjects: Rock Music; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Composers & Musicians - Pop; Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal; Popular; Biography & Autobiography / Women; Women; Biography; Nyro, Laura; Singers; United States
First sentence: She was named after a song.
Description: "Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro is a biography of the pioneering singer-songwriter whose recordings and high-drama performances were both beloved and inspiring in the 1960s and '70s. With her groundbreakingly honest and passionate lyrics, her unusual and innovative rhythms and melody, Nyro's influence is still felt by singers and songwriters today.".

"Beginning with her childhood and teen years in the Bronx, and ending with her untimely death from ovarian cancer in 1997, Soul Picnic details how Nyro was "discovered" as a prodigious eighteen-year-old songwriter, had her songs covered with great success by other singers (most famously, the Fifth Dimension, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Three Dog Night, and Barbra Streisand), and created her own remarkable albums, such as Eli and the Thirteenth Confession and New York Tendaberry."--BOOK JACKET.