History Music / LauraNyro

The following year, she released the album ''New York Tendaberry'', which achieved greater success commercially (but not to the point of being lucrative) and critically. It is also a bit DarkerAndEdgier compared to the predecessor, but also more sensual.

Five years later, she returned with a new album, ''Smile'', following the breakup of her marriage and her mother dying from ovarian cancer at the age of 49. She then embarked on a tour and, two years later, released another album ''Nested''. The latter was recorded while she was pregnant with her only child. In the early 1980s, she started a relationship with Maria Desiderio, a painter, which lasted for the rest of her life.

She returned in 1984 with ''Mother's Spiritual'', and four years later, she embarked on a tour dedicated to the animal rights movement. Her final album of original material was ''Walk the Dog and Light the Light'', released in 1993. She received new offers for film and soundtrack songs, but she refused all of them , with the exception of a song to an Academy Award-winning documentary called "Broken Rainbow" (which got the same title), about the unjust relocation of Navajo people.

Geffen helped Nyro secure a contract with Creator/ColumbiaRecords, giving her greater artistic control. She then released, in 1968, what is generally considered to be her greatest album, ''Eli and the Thirteenth Confession'', which centered around the themes of love, passion, romance, drugs, and death. Also, an unusual thing was done with the lyrics sheet (itself still quite rare in 1968): copies of it were perfumed, and fans have reported that it still has a pleasant aroma decades later.

!! Discography:

* 1967 - ''More Than a New Discovery'' [[note]]re-released in 1973 as ''The First Songs''[[/note]]
* 1968 - ''Eli and the Thirteenth Confession''
* 1969 - ''New York Tendaberry''
* 1970 - ''Christmas and the Beads of Sweat''
* 1971 - ''[[CoverAlbum Gonna Take a Miracle]]'' [[note]]with [=LaBelle=][[/note]]
* 1976 - ''Smile''
* 1978 - ''Nested''
* 1984 - ''[[LighterAndSofter Mother's Spiritual]]''
* 1993 - ''Walk the Dog and Light the Light''

!! Live Discography:
* 1977 - ''Season of Lights''
* 1989 - ''Laura: Live at the Bottom Line''
* 2000 - ''Live from Mountain Stage''[[note]]Recorded in 1990 and released posthumously.[[/note]]

Laura Nyro (née Nigro; October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was an American pop SingerSongwriter from New York City. In the 1960s and '70s she recorded albums that were acclaimed by the critics and wrote songs that were later covered by artists like Music/BarbraStreisand and the Fifth Dimension (the latter had a career almost propelled by her songs, enjoying more commercial success than Nyro ever did herself).

One of her first songs, "And When I Die", was sold to Music/PeterPaulAndMary in 1966, since both acts were under the management of Artie Mogull. (That same year she recorded her debut album, ''More Than a New Discovery'', which was larely ignored.) After she successfully sued to have her contracts with both Mogull and Creator/VerveRecords voided (on the grounds that she had been a minor when she'd signed them), she was taken under the wing of David Geffen. The following year, she performed at the Monterey Pop Festival, but the performance was strangely mixed in terms of reception; Nyro herself believed she'd been massively booed, but filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker, who [[Film/MontereyPop documented the festival]], found no such negative reaction in his footage of her set.

Five years later, she returned with a new album, ''Smile'', after the breakup of her marriage and her mother dying from ovarian cancer at the age of 49. She then embarked on a tour and, two years later, released another album ''Nested''. The latter was recorded while she was pregnant with her only child. In the early 1980s, she started a relationship with Maria Desiderio, a painter, which lasted for the rest of her life.

Geffen helped Nyro secure a contract with Creator/ColumbiaRecords, giving her greater artistic control. She then released, in 1968, what is generally considered to be her greatest album, ''Eli and the Thirteenth Confession'', which centered around the themes of love, passion, romance, drugs and death. Also, an unusual thing happened to the lyrics sheet (itself still quite rare in 1968): copies of it were perfumed, and fans reported that it still has a pleasant aroma nowadays.

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One of her first songs, "And When I Die", was sold to Music/PeterPaulAndMary in 1966, since both acts were under the management of Artie Mogull. (That same year she recorded her debut album, ''More Than a New Discovery'', which was larely ignored.) After successfully suing to have her contracts with both Mogull and Creator/VerveRecords voided (on the grounds that she'd still been a minor when she signed them), she was taken under the wing of David Geffen. The following year, she performed at the Monterey Pop Festival, but the performance was strangely mixed in terms of reception; Nyro herself believed that she had been massively booed, but filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker, who [[Film/MontereyPop documented the festival]], found no such negative reaction in his footage of her set.