Nicolette Larson

Nicolette Larson (born July 17, 1952 in Helena , Montana , † December 16, 1997 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American pop and country singer.

She made her first experiences in the music business as a backing singer for Commander Cody and other great musicians of the 1970s such as Emmylou Harris , Mary Kay Place , Rodney Crowell and Linda Ronstadt . The Doobie Brothers hired Larson as a singer for their albums Minute by Minute (1978) and One Step Closer (1980). On her own records, which are stylistically assigned to West Coast music, she sang a. a. Versions of several little feat songs.

Larson became known in 1978 with her debut single, the Neil Young song Lotta Love , which reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and is also included on the album Nicolette , which was released in the same year and which reached number 15 on the American Billboard charts reached and was gilded. The second album In The Nick Of Time could not follow up on the success of its predecessor, but had another Top 40 hit with the single Let Me Go, Love - a duet with Michael McDonald .

Larson died unexpectedly on December 16, 1997, at the age of only 45, from a blood clot in the brain at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. She left behind her daughter Elsie May and her husband Russ Kunkel, former drummers in the bands of Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne . Larson was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Discography

Albums

• 1978: Nicolette
• 1979: In the Nick of Time
• 1979: Live At The Roxy
• 1981: Radioland
• 1982: All Dressed Up & No Place To Go
• 1985: ... Say When
• 1986: Rose of My Heart
• 1987: Shadows of Love
• 1994: Sleep, Baby, Sleep
• 1999: The Very Best of Nicolette Larson
• 2006: A Tribute to Nicolette Larson: Lotta Love Concert
• 2006: Live At The Roxy (recorded in 1979)

Web links

• Website on nicolettelarson.com (English)
• Nicolette Larson in the Internet Movie Database (English)