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May 6, 2004

"Somewhere over the rainbow way up high,
In the land that I heard of once in a lullaby;
Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue,
And the dreams that you dare to dream,
Really do come true.
" --E.Y. Harburg

Musical Afterlife of Songbird

Eva believed in an afterlife, and she’s getting it—- at least musically. Before her tragic death, at the age of 33, Eva Cassidy had recorded two albums and sold it primarily from the trunk of her car. After she died in 1996, her friends published her work and almost overnight, a painfully shy, simple woman gifted with an angelic voice became a full-fledged legend. Her albums have now sold over 3 million copies worldwide and some say that this is just the beginning.