Laura Nyro
Laura Nyro n r o NEAR oh was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist. She achieved critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession and New York Tendaberry , and had commercial success with artists such as Barbra Streisand and The 5th Dimension recording her songs. Her style was a hybrid of Brill Buildingstyle New York pop, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, show tunes, rock, and soul.
Nyro was born Laura Nigro in the Bronx, the daughter of Gilda Nigro, a bookkeeper, and Louis Nigro, a piano tuner and jazz trumpeter. Laura had a younger brother, Jan Nigro, who has become a wellknown childrens musician. Laura was of Russian Jewish, Polish, and Italian ancestry.
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