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Dana Dawson (August 7, 1974 – August 10, 2010) was an American singer and actress. She made her acting debut at the age of 7 in a national tour of Annie. She was an understudy in the national tour of Rent in 2000 and joined the Broadway cast in 2001 as an understudy/swing. In an interview in The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) Dawson said that she was given time to become secure in each of the two roles she understudied—Mimi and Joanne—before learning the other. As a singer, Dawson released Paris New York And Me, her debut album, in 1991. Her...

Steve Dawson is a singer-songwriter from Chicago, perhaps better known as the front man for the band Dolly Varden. His debut solo album, Sweet Is The Anchor, was released in 2005 and his second solo effort is due to be released in mid-2009. Stylistically his music is influenced by the classic country music he was exposed to growing up in rural Idaho, and the rock and soul records he discovered in his artist father's lp collection. Some critics have called his music 'country-soul'. The music you see here is also from another Steve Dawson - a guitar picker originally from...

With her light, airy vocals, Bronx-born Cory Daye helped to transform Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band into one of the most exciting bands of the late-'70s disco era. Creating some of the earliest disco recordings, Daye and Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band skillfully mixed big band, swing, jump blues, Broadway tunes, and Caribbean influences into their infectious dance music. Leaving the Savannah band to pursue a solo career, Daye found immediate success, she enlisted the songwriting and production of Sandy Linzer to replicate her former band's sound on her solo debut, Cory and Me. Linzer was a particularly appropriate match...