Phoebe Snow (musician)
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Phoebe Ann Laub |
| Born |
July 17, 1950 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | April 26, 2011 (aged 60) Edison, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Genres | Blues, country blues, jazz blues, Folk, gospel, jazz, R&B, rock, rock and roll, soul |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Guitar, vocals |
| Years active | 1972–2010 |
| Labels | Shelter, Columbia, Atlantic, Eagle, House Of Blues |
| Associated acts | Sisters of Glory |
Phoebe Snow (born Phoebe Ann Laub; July 17, 1950 – April 26, 2011) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for her 1975 song "Poetry Man". She was described by The New York Times as a "contralto grounded in a bluesy growl and capable of sweeping over four octaves."
She was born in New York City in 1950, and raised in a musical household in which Delta blues, Broadway show tunes, Dixieland jazz, classical music, and folk music recordings were played around the clock. Her father, Merrill Laub, an exterminator by trade, had an encyclopedic knowledge of American film and theater and was also an avid collector and restorer of antiques. Her mother, Lili Laub, was a dance teacher who had performed with the Martha Graham group.
Snow grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, and graduated from Teaneck High School in 1968. She subsequently attended Shimer College in Mount Carroll, Illinois, but did not graduate. As a student, she carried her prized Martin 000-18 acoustic guitar from club to club in Greenwich Village, playing and singing on amateur nights. Her stage name came from a fictional advertising character created in the early 1900s for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, in which Phoebe Snow was a young woman dressed all in white, emphasizing the cleanliness of Lackawanna passenger trains whose locomotives burned anthracite coal.
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