![]() ![]() I’m really a contemporary singer who chooses songs from every genre.” I love the material and being associated with the politics and the time and the social movement, but I sing all kinds of songs. Over the years her repertoire has expanded to range from Broadway standards and Beatles’ classics to country music. And she then enjoyed great success with her version of Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns.” The song earned her a Grammy nomination and Sondheim won Song of the Year. A version of the gospel song “Amazing Grace” brought her another hit in the early 1970s. It was another legendary composer, Leonard Cohen, who encouraged her to start writing her own songs, and she had a hit with Cohen’s signature song “Suzanne.”Ĭollins major breakthrough came in 1967 with Joni Mitchell’s song “Both Sides Now,” which earned her a Grammy. It was an amazing time.”īob Dylan was one of her contemporaries and by her Grammy-nominated third album in 1963, she began recording Dylan songs including a superb version of “Masters of War.” “I got to hear these artists when they were first writing songs. “It was like a dazzling dream, there were so many talented people and so much good music,” she recalls. Raised in Denver, Colo., Collins began performing in local clubs before moving to New York in the early 1960s to become a bright light in the city’s mushrooming folk scene. ![]()
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