True Colours
Eva Cassidy Lyrics
You with the sad eyes,
Don't be discouraged,
Though I realize,
It's hard to take courage,
In a world full of people,
You can loose sight of it all,
And the darkness there inside you makes you feel so small,
But I see your true colours shining through,
See your true colours that's why I love you,
Your true colours,
True colours are beautiful,
Like a rainbow,
Show me a smile and,
And don't be unhappy,
Can't remember when,
I last saw you laughing,
If this world makes you crazy,
And your taking all you can babe,
You call me up,
Because you know I'll be there,
See your true colours shining through,
I see your true colours,
That's why I love you,
So don't be afraid to let them show,
Your true colours,
Your true colours are beautiful,
Like a rainbow,
Oh,
I can't remember when I last saw you laugh,
If this world makes you crazy,
And you've taken all you can babe,
You call me up,
Because you know I'll be there,
See your true colours shining through,
See your true colours that's why I love you,
So don't be afraid to let them show,
Your true colours,
Your true colours are beautiful,
Like a rainbow,
I see your true colours shining through,
See your true colours that's why I love you,
So don't be afraid to let them show,
Your true colours,
Your true colours are beautiful,
Like a rainbow,
Oooooh aaah
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Written by: Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly
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Eva Marie Cassidy (February 2, 1963 in Washington, DC – November 2, 1996 in Bowie, Maryland) was an American vocalist described by the British newspaper The Guardian as "one of the greatest voices of her generation." She had a diverse repertoire of jazz, blues, folk, gospel and pop. Cassidy remained virtually unknown outside of her native Washington, DC, when she died of melanoma (which had spread to her bones) in 1996. Her posthumously released recordings have since sold in excess of four million copies Read Full BioEva Marie Cassidy (February 2, 1963 in Washington, DC – November 2, 1996 in Bowie, Maryland) was an American vocalist described by the British newspaper The Guardian as "one of the greatest voices of her generation." She had a diverse repertoire of jazz, blues, folk, gospel and pop. Cassidy remained virtually unknown outside of her native Washington, DC, when she died of melanoma (which had spread to her bones) in 1996. Her posthumously released recordings have since sold in excess of four million copies, and in early 2001 the compilation album Songbird reached #1 on the UK album charts.
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.
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.
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hej medi
You with the sad eyes
Don't be discouraged
Do I realize
It's hard to take courage
In a world full of people
You can lose sight of it all
And the darkness (uh) inside you
Make you feel so small
But I see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful
Like a rainbow
Show me a smile then
Don't be unhappy, can't remember when
I last saw you laughing
If this world makes you crazy
And you take it all you can bear
You call me up
Because you know I'll be there
And I see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let show
Your true colors
Your true colors are beautiful
Like a rainbow
(Can't remember when I last saw you laughing)
If this world makes you crazy
And you take it all you can bear
You call me up
Because you know I'll be there
And I see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let it show
Your true colors
True colors
True colors
eh, Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful
Like a rainbow
lexpee
Every time if i hear her sing i get the shivers down my spine, and sometime i get tears in my eyes.
Such a shame that you no longer with us.
Suck a shame that she was just discovered too late.
No one can stand in you shade.
Eva we miss you.
Faith Panfilo
True Colors
Eva Cassidy
You with the sad eyes
Don't be discouraged
Though I realize
It's hard to take courage
In a world full of people
You can lose sight of it all
And the darkness there inside you
Makes you feel so small
But I see your true colors
Shining through
See your true colors
That's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful
Like a rainbow
Show me a smile then
And don't be unhappy
Can't remember
When I last saw you laughing
If this world makes you crazy
And you've taken all you can bear
You can call me up
Because you know I'll be there
And I see your true colors
Shining through
See your true colors
That's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
Your true colors are beautiful
Like a rainbow
Oh oh oh I can't remember
When I last saw you laugh
If this world makes you crazy
And you've taken all you can bear
You call me up
Because you know I'll be there
And I'll see your true colors
Shining through
See your true colors
That's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
Your true colors are beautiful
Like a rainbow
I see your true colors
Shining through
See your true colors
That's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
Your true colors are beautiful
Like a rainbow
Oh oh oh
Sad Yuriko
You with the sad eyes
Don't be discouraged
Though I realize
It's hard to take courage
In a world full of people
You can lose sight of it all
And the darkness there inside you
Makes you feel so small
But I see your true colors
Shining through
See your true colors
That's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful
Like a rainbow
Show me a smile then
And don't be unhappy
Can't remember
When I last saw you laughing
If this world makes you crazy
And you've taken all you can bear
You can call me up
Because you know I'll be there
And I see your true colors
Shining through
See your true colors
That's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
Your true colors are beautiful
Like a rainbow
Oh oh oh I can't remember
When I last saw you laugh
If this world makes you crazy
And you've taken all you can bear
You call me up
Because you know I'll be there
And I'll see your true colors
Shining through
See your true colors
That's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
Your true colors are beautiful
Like a rainbow
I see your true colors
Shining through
See your true colors
That's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
Your true colors are beautiful
Like a rainbow
Oh oh oh
Gregory Buck
How can anyone "Thumbs Down" or dislike this song by her? She's a beautiful soul! It echos in her voice.... In every song that she's ever performed.. I could just spend my whole day listening to her music! RIP Girl.
marksIItimewarps
Those who disliked are the tormented souls in hell
Deborah Fitzgerald
@Cookey Monster They probably like the way Cyndi Lauper sang it.
Cookey Monster
They were probably looking for or prefer a different version of this song.
kay H
Agreed
Norman Curragh
@Phil Williams Good maths Phil, as it should be but I would prefer 0%.
ThatBrit
One of my teachers in primary school used to play Eva to my class at the end of the day if we was good lol bearing in mind this was early 2000's so was a few years after she's actually died.. Pretty sure she didn't want to tell us she was dead cause everyone looked forward the songs. I can still remember her telling us :( this is the first time listening to her since then (have no idea how I even found these masterpieces again) but thought I'd share it with everyone :) R.I.P
Michael Orzolick
ThatBrit
Thank You for Sharing, believe it or not I have a Daughter 47 years old and I’ve never been allowed to know her and she is a famous Singer songwriter
And her first CD 💿 is called “Pieces of You” and her songs “Foolish Games and Enter from the East” are about Me and the Situation
I’m the Strange Fruit 🍎 that fell in the song Enter from the East for if I would have gone to a Racetrack called Niagara Dragstrip Labor Day Weekend 1973 like I was suppose to Jewel Kilcher would have never been Born
• dj •
@Ewan Oxborrow it really is
Ewan Oxborrow
It's amazing how her music links you to such a fond memory x