Phoebe Snow: A Musical Memorial

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As onyxlynx let us know: Phoebe Snow died a couple of weeks ago. Here are some of the songs she sang:

Her biggest hit:

Phoebe Snow~Poetry Man

Phoebe Snow and Linda Ronstadt It's in his kiss

Phoebe Snow - You Send Me

PHOEBE SNOW - If I Can Just Get Through The Night - 12

Phoebe Snow, 'Poetry Man' Singer, Dies At 60

It wasn't long after the release of "Poetry Man," the breezy, jazzy love song that would make Phoebe Snow a star, that the singer experienced another event that would dramatically alter her life.

In 1975, she gave birth to a daughter, Valerie Rose, who was found to be severely brain-damaged. Her husband split from her soon after the baby was born. And, at a time when many disabled children were sent to institutions, Snow decided to keep her daughter at home and care for the child herself.

The decision to be Valerie's primary caretaker would lead her to abandon music for a while and enter into ill-fated business decisions in the quest to stay solvent enough to take care of Valerie.

Snow, who worked her way back into the music performing world in the 1980s and continued to perform in recent years, died on Tuesday from complications of a brain hemorrhage she suffered in January 2010, said Rick Miramontez, her longtime friend and public relations representative. She was 60.MORE