Laura Nyro: Piano-playing songbird embraced a range of musical styles with an unfettered spirit (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2012) Updated: Apr. 11, 2012, 11:00 a.m.

Laura Nyro had nearly completed "Angel in the Dark" before her death from ovarian cancer in 1997, at age 49. It was meant to be part of one more reentry into the limelight she'd flitted in and out ...

There goes Laura Nyro, fading out, perhaps going down the tantalizing “Stony End” as the adulteress on the road, looking for a Christ who wasn’t there — or the kind of world, ...

Laura Nyro wasn't the most commercially successful singer-songwriter to emerge from the fertile New York City music scene. Yet this piano-playing songbird, whose hard-to-peg sound incorporated ...

But by all accounts, Laura Nyro, a woman of Jewish and Italian heritage who died in 1997 at age 49, was an artist of great integrity. She was motivated not by a desire for fame or attention, but ...

Laura Nyro retired from the music business in the early '70s. She moved up to New England and had a child and raised him away from the spotlight. Once in a while, though, she'd come back and work.

For many people weaned on the music of the ’60s/’70s, Laura Nyro was one of those ungraspable artists — someone they knew of but didn’t follow or know much about. She was idolized by David ...

The documentary is based in part on the 2003 book Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro by Michele Kort.Additionally, producers hope to recruit contemporary artists inspired by Nyro to ...

Laura Nyro performs in concert in San Francisco, January 1971. (Photo by Robert Altman/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) I want to tell you about a scene and a time I go back to when I hear New ...

Nyro's musical legacy, complex and underappreciated, is being celebrated with the recent release of Hear My Song: The Collection 1966-1995, a limited-edition box set from Britain's Madfish Records ...

The Laura Nyro Tribute Album ultimately isn’t meant for the clubs. In time, Gil will revert back to his usual self: He’s planning to shoot a “Paperchase” music video in New Jersey, ...