WASHINGTON — Eva Cassidy, the Washington songbird who couldn’t land a record contract during her lifetime, currently has the No. 1 album in England. “Songbird,” a compilation drawn from ...

Eva Cassidy's SONGBIRD album was initially released by independent label Blix Street Records in April, 1998. The posthumous release, an anthology of recordings by the Washington, DC-based singer ...

Rick Porter invites family of Eva Cassidy to Cotillion. Songbird schools in the paddock at Parx Sept. 20. Taylor Ejdys/EQUI-PHOTO ...

Eva Cassidy may have been on the brink of success as a singer when she died of skin cancer aged 33. Now, posthumously, ... But fame has arrived, posthumously, since the release of Songbird, a CD ...

Eva Cassidy left a lasting legacy, ... Several of the CD albums by Eva Cassidy (cq) ... Songbird easily passed the one-million sales mark in the U.S. and was certified platinum in 2008, ...

20 years ago today (March 18), Eva Cassidy’s Songbird album climbed to Number 1 on the Official UK Albums Chart. It was a bittersweet moment; the US jazz-folk musician had died of cancer just ...

Eva Cassidy's Songbird sounds as fresh, honest and vital as it did 20 years ago.. One of the finest voices in popular music, Cassidy died before most of us ever heard her. She made a name for ...

Eva Cassidy was born in 1963 in southern USA, in Bowie, Washington DC. She began playing the acoustic guitar and the piano at the age of nine, tutored by her father Hugh, now a retired special ...

The late Eva Cassidy of Bowie, whose life was cut short by melanoma at age 33 in 1996, had a presence and a sound even as a teenager that stopped people in their tracks. “The first time I ever ...

She's been gone since 1996 when melanoma cut her down at the age of 33, but with each posthumous release, Eva Cassidy's legend grows a little greater. The latest CD is this 10-song collection ...