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Susannah McCorkle was born in 1946 in Berkeley, California. She studied modern languages at the University of California, Berkeley. After a break from school to travel to Mexico, she received her Bachelors degree in Italian literature in 1969. She then moved to Europe, first to Paris, then to Rome, where she worked as a translator. McCorkle began singing professionally after hearing recordings of Billie Holiday in Paris in the late 1960s.

She moved to London in 1972 to pursue a career in singing, where she made her first recordings: a 1975 demo sessions with the pianist Keith Ingham, followed by her first album, The Music Of Harry Warren, with EMI in 1976. In the late 1970s, McCorkle returned to the United States and settled in New York City with a five-month engagement at the Cookery in Greenwich Village.

During the 1980s, McCorkle continued to record; her maturing style and the darkening timbre of her voice greatly enhanced her performances.
Thanks to her linguistic skills, McCorkle translated lyrics of Brazilian, French, and Italian songs, notably those for her Brazilian album Sabia. She had a special affinity for Bossa Nova and often cited Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Waters of March" as her personal favorite. 

McCorkle also had several short stories published and, in 1991, began work on her first novel. She published fiction in Mademoiselle, Cosmopolitan Magazine, and non-fiction in the New York Times Magazine and in American Heritage, including lengthy articles on Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith, Irving Berlin and Mae West.

A breast cancer survivor, McCorkle suffered for many years from depression and committed suicide in 2001 at age 55 by leaping off the balcony of her 16th-floor apartment on West 86th Street in Manhattan.

Susannah McCorkle - Dream - 1987
Susannah McCorkle - Easy To Love - 1995
Susannah McCorkle - From Bessie To Brazil - 1993
Susannah McCorkle - From Broadway To Bebop - 1994
Susannah McCorkle - From Broken Hearts To Blue Skys - 1998
Susannah McCorkle - Hearts And Minds - 2000
Susannah McCorkle - I'll Take Romance - 1992
Susannah McCorkle - Sabia - 1990
Susannah McCorkle - Someone To Watch Over Me - 1997
Susannah McCorkle - The Music Of Harry Warren (1981) - 2008
Susannah McCorkle - The Songs of Johnny Mercer (1977) - 1996

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