While I didn't enjoy all her music I have a great deal of respect for anyone who gives up a career (especially a very successful one) to care for a disabled child. RIP Phoebe.
Andy
We saw here recently at the Beacon Theater when she did a short set with Levon Helm and his band.
A talent to seldom seen and heard.
I never followed her, but I do recall seeing her and thinking she was talented, I also never knew of her daughter.
A mother's love for a child.
RIP Phoebe & Valarie
What an angelic voice.
On a decidedly different note---another singer dies
Punk Singer Poly Styrene Dies at 53
Tue Apr 26, 10:14 am ET
Marianne Elliot-Said, better known as the punk singer Poly Styrene, passed away Monday evening. She'd been diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year. Styrene was the frontwoman of X-Ray Spex, a London band whose 1978 album Germ Free Adolescents is generally counted as one of the great punk rock records of the '70s. Their most enduring mark on the pop-culture landscape was the single "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!"--which kicked off with a Poly Styrene scream that Allmusic calls "one of the most visceral moments in all of British punk." (Girl Talk fans might recognize Styrene's voice from the opening seconds of the track "Smash Your Head"--that's her screaming "one, two, three, four!")