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Jo Gore
Jo Gore is a mezzo soprano who sounds like the grown-up nerdy love child between tina turner and amy winehouse. jo gore's delivery is a unique blend of tina's grit and soul coupled with amy's rawness and sophistication. And the uniqueness of this coupling gives rise to a most amazing style that belongs to jo alone; a style which destines jo to be one this era's iconic voices.
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Why Lesley Gore Mattered
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Lesley Gore, who died on February 16 of lung cancer at age 68, was best known for her hit, It's My Party, which went to #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 and R&B charts in 1963. But the teen singer stood for much more than adolescent anguish and the right to bawl at one's own bash. Gore was 16 when she recorded It's My Party, her first hit about a “friend" named Judy who ran off with her Johnny at a ...
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