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| From | "bryan" <munki100@pacbell.net> |
| Subject | Nellie McKay makes bid for stardom |
| Date | Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:31:33 -0000 |
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from CNN:
'I'm going to be famous'
Nellie McKay makes bid for stardom
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Singer-songwriter Nellie
McKay dropped out of music college with failing
grades two years ago, but now the precocious
19-year-old has a double album climbing the
charts amid a flood of critical acclaim.
To hear McKay tell it, it's about time. After
all, she's talented and she's been working at
this for "a long time."
"I've been telling (my friends) for years that
I'm going to be famous," McKay said with a sly
smile over coffee at a Harlem coffee shop.
"When I look at me in the mirror, I see someone
on the front cover of US Weekly.
"Apparently everyone else sees a regular girl.
I'm very disappointed in that," she continues.
"I want them to see me as Frank Sinatra or Bill
Clinton. It tends to get on my nerves when
people say, 'Wow, can you believe this is
happening to you?' I say 'Yeah, I've worked
hard for this.' "
If that sounds like cocky bluster from a
teenager hawking her first album, it is. But
at the same time, music critics have been
almost unanimous in predicting that McKay
will be a big star.
"At just 19, this supremely gifted, charming
and darkly funny New York oddball has all
the makings of the first great singer-
songwriter of the young century," Washington
Post reviewer Joe Heim gushed of her debut
CD, "Get Away From Me."
And The New York Times called her first
Columbia Records outing "a tour de force
from a sly, articulate musician who sounds
comfortable in any era ... she's blithely
formidable, and just getting started."
British-born and Harlem-raised, McKay went
to college at Manhattan School of Music at
the tender age of 16 but she dropped out,
disenchanted with her singing and piano
studies after just two years.
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