Eva Cassidy was the third of four children born to Hugh and Barbara Cassidy. From an early age, she displayed artistic and musical talent. When she was nine years old, her father taught her to play the guitar, and she began to play and sing at family gatherings.
While a student at Bowie High School, she did sing with a local band, called Stonehenge, and received considerable praise.
At the age of eighteen, Cassidy began her professional career, singing and playing guitar in a Washington, D.C., area band, called Easy Street. This band performed in a variety of styles, at weddings, corporate parties, and pubs.
During the summer of 1983, Cassidy sang and played guitar, six days per week, at Wild World, in Maryland. Her brother Dan was also a member of this working band.
Throughout the 1980s, Cassidy worked with a number of other bands, including the soul and Motown-oriented band The Honeybees, and the techno-pop band Characters Without Names, later called Method Actor.
During this period, Cassidy also worked as a propagator at a plant nursery and as a furniture painter in Annapolis, Maryland. In 1986, she met (bassist and recording engineer) Chris Biondo, who encouraged her and helped her find work as a backup singer for various acts. In 1990, Biondo and Cassidy hired the so-called "Eva Cassidy Band", composed of Chris Biondo, Lenny Williams, Keith Grimes and Raice McLeod, and she began to perform frequently in the Washington area.
In 1992, Biondo played a tape of Cassidy's voice for Chuck Brown. Best known as the "Godfather of Go-go", Brown is also a jazz and blues vocalist. This led to the first commercial recording of Cassidy, the duet album with Chuck Brown, The Other Side; which featured performances of classic songs such as "Fever", Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child" and Cassidy's signature tune "Over the Rainbow". The album was released and distributed by Liaison Records, the label that also released Brown's Go-go albums. The duet CD attracted the attention of various record companies, but the offers all required Cassidy to pigeonhole herself within a single style (e.g., pop or jazz), something she adamantly refused to do.[citation needed]
In 1993 Eva Cassidy was first honored by the Washington area music community when she was awarded two Wammie awards for "Female Vocalist Roots/Traditional R&B" and "Vocalist Jazz/Traditional." The next year she was chosen to perform for the awards ceremony.
In January 1996, Cassidy recorded the album Live at Blues Alley, about which The Washington Post later commented that "she could sing anything and make it sound like the only music that mattered". [1] Cassidy was unhappy with her singing on the album, because she had a bad cold on the night of the recording; she began recording a studio album which was eventually released as Eva by Heart posthumously in 1997.
During a promotional event for the Live at Blues Alley CD in July 1996, Cassidy noticed an ache in her hips, which she attributed to stiffness from painting murals. The pain persisted, and, a few weeks later, Cassidy was diagnosed with melanoma. By the time of her diagnosis, the cancer had spread throughout her body. Cassidy's health rapidly deteriorated, and her final performance was in September 1996. At the performance, she had used a walker to reach the stage, sang "What a Wonderful World" in front of an audience of friends, and was subsequently admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital.[citation needed]
Eva Cassidy died on November 2, 1996, at the age of 33. She was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Washington Area Music Association.
Cheek to Cheek
Eva Cassidy Lyrics
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And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Oh heaven I'm in heaven
And the cares that hung around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Oh I'd love to go out fishing
In an ocean or a creek
But it wouldn't thrill me half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Oh I'd love to climb a mountain
And reach the highest peak
But it wouldn't thrill me half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Won't you come and dance with me
I want my arms about you
The charms about you
Will carry me through
To heaven I'm in heaven
The cares that hung around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Won't you come and dance with me
I want my arms about you
The charms about you
Will carry me through
To heaven I'm in heaven
And the cares that hung around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
Oh when we're out together out together
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Eva Cassidyโs song Cheek to Cheek is a ballad that expresses the singer's joy about spending time dancing with her lover. The lyrics convey the idea of feeling perfectly content and euphoric as if they are in heaven. The repetition of the phrase, โHeaven Iโm in heavenโ, emphasizes the idea of a heavenly bliss that the singer experiences. The first verse highlights the singer's physical reaction to being with her lover, as her heart beats so fast that she can hardly speak.
The singer then goes on to talk about the happiness she feels when they are together. She describes how the worries of the week seem to melt away when they dance cheek-to-cheek, and she compares this feeling to a gamblerโs lucky streak. In the third verse, the singer talks about other things that may bring excitement or thrills, such as fishing or climbing a mountain. However, she emphasizes that none of these experiences compares to dancing cheek-to-cheek with her lover. The final verse then repeats the same message that the singer wants her lover to come and dance with her, and their dance brings her to heaven.
Overall, the song Cheek to Cheek is not just about the act of dancing itself, but about how the act of dancing makes the singer feel. The lyrics convey the message that true happiness can be found in spending time with loved ones and that it is the simple joys in life that can bring the most joy.
Line by Line Meaning
Heaven I'm in heaven
I am experiencing pure, unadulterated joy and contentment.
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
My heart is pounding with excitement, and I am almost speechless in the face of such intense emotions.
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
I have finally found the type of happiness that I have been searching for.
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
I feel the most alive and happy when we are close to each other, dancing in each other's arms.
And the cares that hung around me through the week
All of the worries and problems that I have been carrying around with me all week seem to melt away.
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
These worries disappear suddenly and completely, like a gambler's good luck streak.
Oh I'd love to go out fishing
While I enjoy other activities, such as fishing,
In an ocean or a creek
Fishing would never compare to the intense joy and closeness I feel while dancing with you.
But it wouldn't thrill me half as much
Though I would still enjoy it to some extent,
As dancing cheek to cheek
It could never compare to the pure happiness and fulfillment I experience when dancing with you.
Oh I'd love to climb a mountain
While I would also love to climb a mountain,
And reach the highest peak
It could never fulfill me in the same way that dancing with you does.
Won't you come and dance with me
Please join me on the dance floor,
I want my arms about you
I long to hold you in my arms,
The charms about you
There is something so captivating and enchanting about you,
Will carry me through
And being close to you will help me get through anything.
And the cares that hung around me through the week
Once again, all of my worries and stresses seem to evaporate when we dance together.
Oh when we're out together out together
When we are together,
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
When we are holding each other close and swaying to the music,
Lyrics ยฉ Universal Music Publishing Group, MUSIC.INFO FINLAND OY
Written by: Irving Berlin
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Lyrics
Heaven
I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Heaven
I'm in heaven
And the cares that hung around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gamblers lucky streak
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Oh, I love to climb a mountain
And to reach the highest peak
But it doesn't thrill me half as much as dancing cheek to cheek
Oh, I love to go out fishing
In a river, or a creek
But I don't enjoy it half as much as dancing cheek to cheek
Dance with me
I want my arm about you
That charm about you will carry me through to...
Heaven
I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find that happiness I seek
When we're out together swinging cheek to cheek
Come on and dance with me
I want my arm about you
That charm about you it will carry me through
Right up to...
Heaven
I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find that happiness I seek
When we're out toghether dancing
Out together dancing
Out together dancing cheek to cheek!
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Heaven
I'm in heaven
And my heart beats
So that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find
The happiness I seek
When we're out together
Dancing cheek to cheek
Heaven
I'm in heaven
And the cares
That hung around me
Through the week
Seem to vanish
Like a gamblers
Lucky streak
When we're out together
Dancing cheek to cheek
Oh
I love to climb a mountain
And to reach the highest peak
But it doesn't thrill me
Half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Oh
I love to go out fishing
In a river, or a creek
But I don't enjoy it half
As much as dancing
Cheek to cheek
Dance with me
I want my arm about you
That charm about you
Will carry me through to
Heaven
I'm in heaven
And my heart beats
So that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find
That happiness I seek
When we're out together
Swinging cheek to cheek
Come on and dance with me
I want my arm about you
That charm about you
Will carry me through
Right up to
Heaven
I'm in heaven
And my heart beats
So that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find
That happiness I seek
When we're out
Together dancing
Out together dancing
Out together dancing
Cheek to cheek
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Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Ohh heaven, I'm in heaven
And the cares that hung around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Oh I'd love to go out fishing in an ocean or a creek
But it wouldn't fill me half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Ohh I'd love to climb a mountain and reach the highest peak
But it wouldn't thrill me half as mich
As dancing cheek to cheek
Won't you come and dance with me
I want my arms about you; the charms about you
Will carry me through to
Heaven, I'm in heaven
The cares that hung around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Won't you come and dance with me
I want my arms about you; the charms about you
Will carry me through to
Heaven, I'm in heaven
And the cares that hung around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
When we're out together, out together
Dancing cheek to cheek
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Phil Piper
A shout out to Lenny Williams for his superb swinging solo, also the rest of the band. So glad Eva had such a great bunch of musicians around her. Absolutely superb..
Robert Griffiths
Nailed it Phil โคโค
Marc St-Jean
Unreal! How could it be any better?
Duznt Matter
She IS Excellent ! But canโt execute that without great players!
Larry Fisher
Always felt he was under appreciated on these tracks
His break on Autumn Leaves stops me in my tracks every time.
Carol Palmer
What vocals...and such great classic musical selections! Shows us a side of her personality, wow! Just amazingly lovely!
Amy Foss
She is divine.
Jeremy Stig
My favorite interpretation of this standart, she's unbelievable.
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100%
1976ABBA32
I really feel pity for those unlucky people, who haven't heard this heavenly voice even once in a lifetime..Each song she sang had become a part of her, such that it was originally her composition...