dizzy-in-the-head:

Laura Nyro performing Poverty Train at Monterey Pop Festival, 1967.

thatonerecordstoreguy:

This woman speaks to my soul. I love her.

Color slides of Laura Nyro at the Seattle Opera House April 10, 1971. 

Laura Nyro in Concert at the Seattle Opera House April 10, 1971.

Laura Nyro, charcoal on paper mounted on wood panel by Sandy Frazier on flickr

Laura Nyro, a painting in oils (1982) by Rolf Christiansen on flickr

If anybody could be miscast, it’s me—that’s been my problem, because, if you put my music in the wrong place, it becomes a freak. I don’t fall into categories and people constantly want to put me in categories, but I refuse. I don’t like organized religion. I believe in universal love and brotherhood. People must be themselves and they must develop individually. They must do what’s right for them—find their own religion and find God for themselves. —Laura Nyro

Interview with David Geffen, Laura’s agent.

I was miscast,” Miss Nyro notes in recalling her Verve experience. “They projected me as being the ‘Teenybopper Queen’, because I was 18 at the time. I remember my first publicity pictures. I weighed 180 pounds at that time—my weight is always up and down. I was really fat that week, and they wanted to push my song called Wedding Bell Blues, so they stuffed me into this wedding dress, put a veil on my head, and flowers in my hand. I looked so uptight, the most uptight bride you’ve ever seen. And then this picture was splashed all over the industry. The next song they wanted to become a hit was Goodbye Joe and they ran big ads that said something like ‘Well, the Wedding Bell Blues gal has lost another man, but gained another hit’ … And then I read this article about myself that said something like ‘Life is a seesaw of joys and sorrows,’ which is a quote from Khalil Gibran, ‘but it only hurts when she laughs and you must keep an eye on her … Laura Nyro enjoys a good game of darts … ‘I mean, things like that—it really enraged me. They didn’t know what to say about me, so they said these silly things—I guess they tried to put some humor into it, or something. It was really terrible, it really was. —Laura Nyro

I think it’s got to be near-oh, because I heard Todd Rundgren pronounce it that way and I know he met her once :)

Right! Yeah I’m going to keep saying it that way.

I’d say it’s worth at least a try. :D

Yeah I think I’ll try- I might not even get any response but if I do we’ll (hopefully) learn how the film is going..

do you think i’d get a response if i emailed the person who’s supposed to direct the documentary about laura? 

If you find those people, let me know. (Hahaha. How does he pronounce it? I say “NEAR-oh”. [Thank you to wikipedia for spelling that pronunciation for me, haha.])

SAME. That is the right way to say it! But according to my uncle because he’s “always said ‘NIGH-ro’ it has to be right” when I’ve seen scans of advertisements where it literally says “pronounce it near-oh” and wikipedia AND multiple biographies of her say the same thing!