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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. In the early 1990s, two of the albums McCorkle made for Concord Records, No More Blues and Sábia, were enormously successful and made her name known to the wider world. McCorkle played Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Halls five times and Carnegie Hall three times, and was featured soloist with Skitch Henderson and the 80-piece New York Pops in a concert of Brazilian music.

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.

01 - Susannah McCorkle - Fascinating Rhythm.mp3
02 - Susannah McCorkle - Swing That Music.mp3
03 - Susannah McCorkle - The Ballad Of Pearly Sue.mp3
04 - Susannah McCorkle - P.S. I Love You.mp3
05 - Susannah McCorkle - Can't Take You Nowhere.mp3
06 - Susannah McCorkle - No More Blues.mp3
07 - Susannah McCorkle - Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me.mp3
08 - Susannah McCorkle - Breezin' Along With The Breeze.mp3
09 - Susannah McCorkle - Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'.mp3
10 - Susannah McCorkle - Who Cares (So Long As You Care For Me).mp3
11 - Susannah McCorkle - Sometimes I'm Happy.mp3
12 - Susannah McCorkle - Everything's Been Done Before.mp3