Minnie Riperton
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AUDIO
Interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages Audio, April 1977
The trilling songthrush talks about playing Las Vegas; about live arrangements; about her collaborators; her stage background; on relationships and self-awareness; on songwriting, and at some length on her struggle with breast cancer, and winning the American Cancer Society's Courage Award.
File format: mp3; file size: 42.1mb, interview length: 44' 54" sound quality: ***
ARTICLES IN LIBRARY
Interview by David Rensin, Rolling Stone, 10 October 1974
LOS ANGELES – Along with many of the stars and hopefuls at Chicago's 1971 Black Expo, Minnie Riperton waited patiently backstage to approach the blind ...
Herbie Hancock, Minnie Riperton: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 12 October 1974
Coarse Hancock ...
Minnie Riperton: From a whisper to a scream
Profile by Giovanni Dadomo, Record Mirror, 26 October 1974
WHEN A RECORD company brings the release date of an album forward by almost three months it's a sure sign that the artist involved is ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 12 April 1975
MINNIE RIPERTON is as fizzy as a soda bottle shaken on a hot summer day. Life, it is reassuring to know, can be enjoyed even ...
Minnie Riperton: Perfect Angel In Flight
Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 12 April 1975
As Minnie Riperton hits No. 1 in America Penny Valentine reports from New York ...
Minnie Riperton: Adventures In Paradise (Epic EPC 80803) (49:00)
Review by Robin Katz, Sounds, 7 June 1975
Minnie: rather less than angelic ...
Feminism Is, Uh, Like Skinning Cats...
Interview by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 4 June 1977
...or something like that, so it says here, in this double-date interview with Mss MINNIE RIPERTON and MILLIE JACKSON ...
Minnie Riperton: 'Minnie Bird', The 5 - Octave Soprano Is Back
Report and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 30 August 1977
MINNIE RIPERTON'S press bio reads: "The lady with the five and a half-octave coloratura soprano voice is a star". Without taking away from her talent ...
How Minnie's Cooking Tempted Stevie Wonder
Profile and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, June 1979
MINNIE RIPERTON has a new album out and it marks her debut set for Capitol Records. She's feeling justifiably pleased with it and has good ...
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, June 1979
2008 introduction:This interview was David's second face-to-face conversation with Minnie; at the time, she was dealing with health challenges – in 1976, she had been ...
Van McCoy, Minnie Riperton Cut Down in Their Prime
Obituary by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 21 July 1979
WHEN LOWELL George died, a kind of half-hearted black joke about 'the season starting' was popular on many lips. In the brief space since his ...
Minnie Riperton: Minnie (Capitol) ****
Review by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 4 August 1979
THIS WAS going to be a happy, triumphant comeback album... ...
Minnie Riperton: 10 of the best tracks
Guide by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 29 June 2016
She had a five-octave vocal range, inspired Stevie Wonder and gave birth to Maya Rudolph – the tragedy is that this huge musical talent died ...
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