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 ...
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 ...
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 Bird': The 5 - Octave Soprano Is Back
Report and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 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, Guardian, The, 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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