"Poetry Man" Phoebe Snow, singer dies at 58

NEW YORK - Phoebe Snow, bluesy singer, guitarist and composer who had a decisive success in the 1970s with the man of poetry, but fell in much of the spotlight to take care of her disabled daughter, died. By Robert Raphael, AP

Phoebe Snow developed his musical career on the pilot who died in 2007 to focus on caring for her daughter of brain lesions.

By Robert Raphael, AP

Phoebe Snow developed his musical career on the pilot who died in 2007 to focus on caring for her daughter of brain lesions.

Snow, who was named best new artist at the Grammys 1975, died Tuesday morning in Edison, New Jersey, following a cerebral hemorrhage suffered in January 2010, said Rick Miramontez, his longtime friend and a representative of public relations. She was the Manager, Sue Cameron 58.Snow, said enduré singer ends of blood clots, pneumonia and congestive heart failure since his stroke. "This unique and untouchable voice loss is incalculable, said Cameron. "Phoebe was one of the brightest, funniest and most talented songwriters or composers of all time and, especially, a magnificent mother to her daughter end of brain lesions, Valerie, for 31 years." Phoebe felt was his greatest achievement. "Known as a folk guitarist who made incursion into the jazz and blues, put snow its stamp on the soul classics as the earth quakes, Love makes a woman and mercy, Mercy Mercy on half a dozen albums.Shortly after the poetry Man snow reached the Top 5 pop singles in 1975, his daughter, Valerie Rose, was born with serious brain damage, and Snow decided to take care of him at home rather than placed in an institution."It was the only thing that held me together", she told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2008. "My life was, completely on it, the moment that I woke up to the time that I went to bed at night."Valerie, who was born with hydrocephalus, an accumulation of fluid in the cavity of the brain that inhibits the development of the brain, was not expected to live more than a few years. She died in 2007 at the age of 31 years, snow found time to sing on the song by Paul Simon on the last and tour Gone with him, as well as to the Woodstock festival 25th anniversary in 1994in an act of the soul which included Thelma HoustonMavis Staples and CeCe Peniston.Snow also recruited by Donald Fagen of Steely Dan to participate in the New York Rock and Soul Revue, which takes him, Charles Brown, Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs and other touring and New York Beacon Theatre for an exuberant live album in 1991. "Sometimes I put an album, but I didn't not on tour, and they do not have a lot of support from the label,"she told the Chronicle." But do you know what? This is not really important because I have to stay home more with Valerie and the time was valuable. "She was born Phoebe Ann Laub of white Jewish parents in New York in 1952 and grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey although many assumed that she was black, snow never alleged African American ancestry.It changed its name after seeing Phoebe Snow, a character advertising for a railway, affixed on trains passing through his hometown. Snow left College after two years of performing in amateur nights in folk clubs of Greenwich Village.Son first record, Phoebe Snow, released in 1974 and showed off the coast of its chops songwriting on a selection of tunes spanning bluesjazz and folk. Hit-bound poetry man took the file No. 4 on the album charts, but its success was uncomfortable. "There are turning points in life where you decide if you're going to sink or swim. My insecurity did not use much at all. It was really a stone of stumbling, she told the Associated Press 1989.Rumors abounded that Jackson Browne a Man. poetry, no.. Is someone you know. People just thought poetry Man was Browne because he was the first Act, I have toured with, "Snow told USA today in childhood 1989.After 1976 second selling gold, following albums Snow has found more small audiences." In the 1980s and 1990s, snow sang commercial jingles - for businesses, including Michelob, Hallmark, and AT & T - and performed live here and there.Inexperienced in the music industry, she has broken a number of contracts with record companies and others and herself in a number of prosecution and serious financial problems. Snow husband, musician Phil Kearns, left while Valerie was still a baby.She sang the theme for NBC A Different World and the jingle celebrate the Moments of Your Life for General Foods International coffees. She sang also to radio host Howard Stern to Beth Ostrosky marriage in 2008 and for President Bill Clinton, who asked her to perform at Camp David during his presidency.In 2003, she released the CD wonder of nature, his first original new hardware album in 14 years. His other albums include something real in 1989 and Rock Away from 1981. In 2008, she released a live album entitled Live and CD best-of in 2001.

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