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music2 years ago

"The Enigmatic Disappearance of Connie Converse: Unraveling the Tale of a Vanished Singer-Songwriter"

Singer-songwriter Connie Converse, known for her pioneering music in the 1950s, disappeared in 1974 after leaving the music scene and working as a social justice champion. Her music was rediscovered in 2009, and now a new album titled "Musicks" containing 32 songs, recorded by Converse herself in 1956, will be released. The album represents her vision and is a significant addition to her commercially available work. Converse's mysterious disappearance adds to the intrigue surrounding her life and music.

via NPR|
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music2 years ago

Uncovering the 'Female Bob Dylan' of NYC: Connie Converse

Connie Converse, a singer-songwriter who lived in New York City during the 1940s and '50s, is being hailed as "the female Bob Dylan" by folk music scholars. Despite recording her own songs and even appearing on TV, her music never gained commercial success. After leaving New York, she reinvented herself as an editor, scholar, and activist in Michigan before vanishing without a trace in 1974. Though largely unknown during her lifetime, interest in her legacy is growing.

via Newser|
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music2 years ago

The Enigmatic Disappearance of Connie Converse, the Female Bob Dylan.

Connie Converse was a singer-songwriter who made her own recordings in her Greenwich Village apartment in the 1950s, but didn’t manage to break through, mostly because her music was neither fish nor fowl, and the music industry hadn’t known what to do with her. Her 1950s recordings resurfaced in 2009 on an independently produced album called How Sad, How Lovely, and have since gained a cult following. In August 1974, she sent cryptic handwritten letters to her closest family and friends telling them she was going away to try to start over again, somewhere else, and that they should not worry about her. She was last seen in Ann Arbor, in August 1974, and her car nor her whereabouts have ever been found.

via Rolling Stone|
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