Sandy Denny - Biografía en Yahoo

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One of the finest singer-songwriters to ever emerge from Great Britain, Sandy Denny (b. Jan. 6, 1941, London, England) has increasingly grown in critical stature since her career was tragically cut short in 1978. Renowned mainly as the central singer-songwriter figure in England's long-lived folk aggregation Fairport Convention, Denny also became known to many for peripheral reasons: Her composition "Who Knows Where the Time Goes"--only the second song she'd ever written--was the title track of Judy Collins's best-selling album of 1968; additionally, longtime fans Led Zeppelin invited Denny to sing on "The Battle Of Evermore" from their 1970 set Led Zeppelin III. 
A former nursing student, Denny began her musical career in various English pubs and clubs in the mid-'60s. While performing at the Troubadour club in Earls Court in 1967, Denny was spotted by Dave Cousins, leader of British folk group the Strawbs, who asked her to join his group and she did; they then recorded an album together in Copenhagen, All Our Own Work, featuring "Who Knows Where The Time Goes." While Cousins was out seeking a British distributor for the set, Denny accepted an offer to replace departing singer Judy Dyble in Fairport Convention and joined the group in May 1968. 
Denny proved a brilliant addition to the group from the start. Her song "Fotheringay," which opened What We Did On Our Holidays (released in America as Fairport Convention (1st LP) on A&M), was a warm, elegantly reserved acoustic track that instantly set the tone for Fairport's coming stylistic shift. Fairport's first album with Dyble (which saw delayed U.S. release in 1970 on Cotillion Records) had displayed a British band clearly taken with American music forms, covering songs by Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, and Emitt Rhodes; with Denny's addition, the group still sounded faintly American ("Mr. Lacey" might've come from the first Jefferson Airplane album; "Book Song" sounded much like the early Byrds), and still covered Dylan and Mitchell, but were heading toward a unique synthesis contemporizing British folk forms. When vocalist Iain Matthews left to go solo, the roles of both Denny and Fairport guitarist Richard Thompson increased markedly; both pushed quickly toward their new style that much quicker. 
Denny stayed with Fairport for two more albums, leaving on the heels of what has been uniformly acclaimed the pivotal album of British folk-rock, Liege And Lief. The group's all-time international bestseller (though it failed to chart in America), it memorably combined original material like "Come All Ye" by Denny and bassist Ashley Hutchings with English traditional songs such as "Tam Lin," and essentially pointed the way Fairport Convention would proceed without Denny for many years to come. In 1970, both Hutchings and Denny left the group. Hutchings went on to form the successful, similarly folk-oriented Steeleye Span, and Denny, with her eventual husband Trevor Lucas, an Australian, formed Fotheringay. 
Though that group recorded but one album, it was dominated by a wealth of superb Denny originals such as "Nothing More" and "The Sea": it became obvious that with Fairport's heading toward traditional territories, Denny's songs might not have been entirely appropriate in that context. After an aborted attempt at a second Fotheringay album, the group broke up. Denny began recording a series of solo albums, the best of which was 1974's Sandy. As in the early Fairport Days, Denny occasionally interpreted other artists' songs--Bob Dylan being a particular favorite--but her originals were consistently unique and appealing. Musicians came from the same revolving case of British folk player, including members of Fairport Convention. 
Ironically, Trevor Lucas became a Fairport Convention member himself in 1974. Denny, who'd obviously left the group amicably, returned as well, touring the States with Fairport in 1974 and contributing to its 1975 album Rising For The Moon. Both she and Lucas left the group in 1976; in 1977, she bore a baby daughter, Georgia. The next year, after falling down a flight of stairs, Denny died of a brain hemorrhage on April 21. A top-notch 4-LP set of Denny's work was released by Hannibal Records in 1985; commendably comprehensive, the collection shows Denny's singing and songwriting to have timeless appeal. She remains greatly missed. 
This Biography was written by Dave DiMartino.

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