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Every year brings countless new uses of her music in films, television and beyond–from USA Ladies Figure Skating Champion Michelle Kwan skating to Eva’s ‘ Fields of Gold‘ during the closing ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City to the inclusion of her ‘ Songbird‘ performance in the film Love Actually (2003) to a 2007 BBC poll ranking Eva Cassidy 21st on a list of “100 Voices of the 20th Century” to the 67th Annual Emmy Awards using her signature version of ‘ Over the Rainbow‘ to underscore the 2015 award show’s In Memoriam tribute honoring the passing of major television industry figures during the prior year to the continuing use of her arrangements and recordings on talent shows such as The X Factor, The Voice, American Idol, America’s Got Talent and Dancing With The Stars. ARIA Charts > ARIA Report > 25 August 2003" (PDF) (705). Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2003-10-06 . Retrieved 2011-07-24. {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help) Thursday 18th March 2021 is the 20th anniversary of Eva Cassidy’s ‘ Songbird‘ album becoming No.1 in the UK album chart. Originally released in 1998, 2 years after Eva’s death, it took a record-breaking 133 weeks to reach the top of the Official UK Album Chart, the most time any album has taken between release and becoming the UK No.1. The album spent a total of 6 months in the UK Top 10. Once she began to sing, however, he was instantly taken with her natural skill. “A lot of people take lessons to learn music theory and how to do harmonies,” he said. “She could just do it. I watched her come up with three- or four-part harmonies out of nowhere. She would hear it in her head and then sing anything she heard.” At one point, Blue Note tried pairing her with a smooth jazz band on the label, Pieces of a Dream, for a few songs but the singer despised the result. A more pleasing proposal came from Apollo Records, run by civil rights activist Percy Sutton, a label connected to the vaunted Harlem-based theater. “They sent her a contract which meant she could have quit her day job (in a plant nursery) and gotten a yearly salary,” Biondi said. “That was a dream come true.”

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The Best of Eva Cassidy: "CHART WATCH #385". auspOp. September 10, 2016 . Retrieved September 11, 2016. At times, however, the subtlety of her approach, and the quiet intensity of it, could fly over the heads of some audiences. “We never played loud which was a problem for us,” Biondo said. “One time, we played this club in southern Maryland and we were doing ballads, country tunes and the clientele was into Lynyrd Skynyrd, so people were leaving. The guy who had hired us to play said, ‘How about I pay you and you guys go home?’ It’s never a good thing when someone pays you to leave.”

As soon as her vocal came on, I felt it was extraordinary,” he said. “By the time I finished the album, I came to the conclusion that this was one of the best singers ever.” Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdfed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p.52. Songbird‘ paved the way for an unparalleled posthumous career including further No.1 UK albums in 2002 and 2003 and a No.1 duet single in 2007. Eva Cassidy has achieved 10 UK Gold albums, a feat only matched by 10 other female artists including Madonna, Kate Bush and Kylie Minogue, 4+million UK album sales, 10+million worldwide album sales, more than 1.2 billion worldwide streams. Two years later, as 2000 drew to a close, a video of Eva performing ‘ Over the Rainbow‘ from the Blues Alley concert aired on Top of the Pops 2 on BBC2 and was re-broadcast in January, 2001 following a wave of requests from viewers. The re-broadcast catapulted the ‘ Songbird‘ album to the top of the UK and Irish album charts on March 18, 2001, igniting a media storm in the U.S. where outlets from The Today Show to ABC World News Tonight to CNN weighed in on the phenomenon that was Eva Cassidy. By November of 2001, the fifth anniversary of her passing, ‘ Songbird‘ had been certified triple platinum in the UK for sales of more than 900,000.

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Album Review: Eva Cassidy & The London Symphony Orchestra - 'I Can Only Be Me' ". The Music. 3 March 2023 . Retrieved 11 March 2023. On the other hand, Biondo said Cassidy “thought that was kinda cool,” an attitude that underscores her focus on the performance rather than its reception. “She just liked to go out and sing,” he said. “She didn’t want anybody to jump up and down.” a b c Peaks in Australia: "Australian Charts > Eva Cassidy". australian-charts.com Hung Medien . Retrieved 2011-07-24. Though many have come to similar conclusions since, Biondo was one of the first to do so. He met Cassidy in the winter of 1986 when, on the recommendation of a mutual friend, she came to visit him at his small home recording studio. “She was afraid to come inside because she had not done any recording like this before,” Biondo said.Official Albums Chart Top 100 10 March 2023 - 16 March 2023". Official Charts. 10 March 2023 . Retrieved 10 March 2023. Upon her death, Eva Cassidy’s voice reached global recognition with her masterful interpretations of ‘ Fields of Gold‘, ‘ Autumn Leaves‘, ‘ Songbird‘ and ‘ Over the Rainbow‘, songs. Crossing all boundaries–musical, cultural, geographical–her voice continues to find new listeners every day. “ She sang for the pure joy of singing”, her mother, Barbara Cassidy, has said, “ however, the spirit would move her”. ARIA Charts > Accreditations > 2004 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on August 7, 2008 . Retrieved 2011-07-24. Official Albums Chart Top 100 10 March 2023 - 16 March 2023". Official Charts. 10 March 2023 . Retrieved 11 March 2023. In recent years, Eva Cassidy has become the standard for a younger generation of female singers. Her influence is documented in ‘ Eva Cassidy: Timeless Voice‘, a 2013 television program. Adele has been quoted as saying: “ So I used to dress up like a Slipknot fan, and then after school I’d run home and listen to Eva Cassidy.”