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Behind the Rainbow: The Tragic Life of Eva Cassidy. Johan Bakker
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Eva Cassidy's story is one of the most compelling and poignant in recent music history. In this thoughtful and probing biography, Johan Bakker re-evaluates her brief performing career and the fame that only came after her death at the age of 33.
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Hardcover, 198 pages
Published
February 1st 2012
by Omnibus Press
(first published January 19th 2012)
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I keep getting requests to play her music on my local radio slot. To be perfectly honest, I knew nothing of Eva Cassidy, except that she died from cancer. I didn't know if she was English, Irish, American or what. So Johan Bakker's 2011 biography, 'Behind the Rainbow-The Tragic Life of Eva Cassidy' has somewhat filled in the blanks.
I'm still not so sure that Cassidy's story is one of the most compelling and poignant in recent music history, as the sleeve blurb purports. Any loss of life, at any ...more
I'm still not so sure that Cassidy's story is one of the most compelling and poignant in recent music history, as the sleeve blurb purports. Any loss of life, at any ...more
ummm i had heard of Eva cassidy and knew what sadly happened to her so as you know knew what was coming, i found her early life interesting and that she felt really insecure in life you always imagine people to be very put going and living the pop star lifestyle although the actual death of Eva is so sad but the saddest is to read about all the fighting that has gone on within her family friends which would have been the last thing she wanted !!!
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so tragic. I am just glad that she is still being discovered
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