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| From | mike vancha <mvancha@sasktel.net> |
| Subject | Re: Nellie McKay makes bid for stardom |
| Date | Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:34:31 -0600 |
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Nellie McKay is on "The View" tv show April 29, so her Sony website says.
Mike V.
on 4/14/04 9:31 AM, bryan at munki100@pacbell.net wrote:
> http://tinyurl.com/2m4dw
>
> 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.
>
> (more at the link)
>
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