To Wake You and other artists celebrate the music of Laura Nyro. To Wake You plays at 6:55pm "Nyro was a songwriter’s songwriter who lit the way for others. Her memorable songs and trailblazing style have empowered such radically original female artists as Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Suzanne Vega, Jane Siberry, Rickie Lee Jones and many others. Todd Rundgren was a disciple, admitting that he changed his songwriting style after hearing Nyro. Elton John, speaking on Elvis Costello’s interview show Spectacle, confessed that he “idolized” Nyro: “The soul, the passion, just the out-and-out audacity of the way her rhythmic and melodic changes came was like nothing I’d heard before.” (https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/laura-nyro) Hosted by Bonnie Nelson & Steve Key of Songwritersatplay.com
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