I, too, have heard of her, and she does have a lovely voice. But I’ll go against the crowd here and say that all those mournful, heart-wrenching, sad-sounding songs make me want to gouge my ears out then stab myself in the heart. I’d have to be institutionalized for clinical depression if I listened to track after track of that stuff over and over.
I’m sure this will also be an unpopular opinion, but I actually like Katharine McPhee’s Somewhere Over the Rainbow better, and I think her voice is just as lovely as Eva Cassidy’s.
It’s all subjective so your opinion is a valid as mine but I have to disagree on nearly every level. The production was horrible. It seemed like a West End/Broadway performance. I also didn’t really like the phrasing. Her voice doesn’t song as full and strong either.
Michelle Kwan used her version of Fields of Gold for one of her skating routines. I saw her do it live years ago with my daughter. I now know why people go gaga over figure skating–the combination of that song, that singer, the choreography and Kwan–fantastic. It’s a cliche, but poetry in motion.
I started with Songbird. I love Eva and now so does my mom. She even used to play Eva’s music at the hospital where she worked during counseling sessions. She said a lot of the patients enjoyed it too.
Her version of Over the Rainbow is probably the most moving ever, and I also happen to love Iz’s version.
She did a lot of blues songs as well as the ballads she is most know for. The CD Live at Blues Alley has her doing a wide variety of styles such as jazz, blues, rock and ballads.
A lot of people think she only did ballads because that is what most people hear on the radio.
