Orlagh Bailey More from SerenityB Clear and Refreshing: Nee, Taxi is a textbook contemporary example of the style of the style of folk/singer-songwriter music that flooded Japan in the early 1970s, by one of this current generation's most talented and versatile songwriters.
N'Dour – a versatile singer, songwriter, and composer best known in Britain for his hit song with Neneh Cherry, 7 Seconds – said he decided to contest the election in the small West African state following overwhelming pressure from supporters.
She's a versatile and direct songwriter, and malleable.
Dobie Gray, a versatile singer and songwriter who had a handful of hits in various pop genres but who was probably best known for his enduring 1973 soul anthem, "Drift Away," a wistful paean to all songwriters and their songs, died on Tuesday in Nashville.
8 p.m., Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston Street, at Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, (212 260-4700; $15. (Pareles) MILTON NASCIMENTO (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) Since his heyday in the early 1970's, the versatile Brazilian singer and songwriter Milton Nascimento has been making experimental jazz-pop that often features inventive vocal improvisations.
Syd Straw has a big, gutsy, country-tinged voice, and in Plankton she joins some promising company: the pop-rock songwriter Don Piper, the versatile clarinetist Doug Weiselman and a ukulele player named Little Red Tiny Baby.
They join the neo-soul singer-songwriter Erykah Badu and the versatile composer Ted Hearne — as well as the concert's host, Yasiin Bey — for two nights of classical/hip-hop fusion at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The versatile Owens, 44, is a singer-songwriter, actress, comedian and TV and record producer.
Although he was a Nashville songwriter, primarily composing with mainstream country stars in mind, his songs were versatile and adaptable enough to have been recorded by distinctly uncountry artists including Marilyn Manson and David Lee Roth.
