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  • American people of Polish-Jewish descent
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  • Cancer deaths in Connecticut
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  • Deaths from ovarian cancer
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  • American songwriter, singer, and pianist.Born: 18 October 1947 in The Bronx, NYC, New York, USA. Died: 8 April 1997 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA (aged 49).Inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010 and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.
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  • Laura Nyro /ˈnɪəroʊ/ NEAR-oh (October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist. She achieved critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968) and New York Tendaberry (1969), and had commercial success with artists such as Barbra Streisand and The 5th Dimension recording her songs. Her style was a hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, show tunes, rock, and soul.Between 1968 and 1970, a number of artists had hits with her songs: The 5th Dimension with %22Blowing Away%22, %22Wedding Bell Blues%22, %22Stoned Soul Picnic%22, %22Sweet Blindness%22, %22Save the Country%22, and %22Black Patch%22; Blood, Sweat & Tears and Peter, Paul & Mary with %22And When I Die%22; Three Dog Night and Maynard Ferguson with %22Eli's Comin'%22; and Barbra Streisand with %22Stoney End%22, %22Time and Love%22, and %22Hands off the Man (Flim Flam Man)%22. Nyro's best-selling single was her recording of Carole King and Gerry Goffin's %22Up on the Roof%22.In 2012, Nyro was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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