05:11 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nUS folk and blues singer Phoebe Snow has died of complications from a stroke she suffered last year, aged 58.<\/p>\n
The singer-songwriter, who was best known for her 1975 hit Poetry Man, had been in a coma since the stroke in January 2010, her manager said.<\/p>\n
Snow largely dropped out of the public spotlight soon after her first album to care for her daughter who was born with a severe brain injury.<\/p>\n
However she continued to make albums, releasing 16 during her career.<\/p>\n
“Our treasured icon heroically fought for almost a year-and-a-half to come back, enduring bouts of blood clots, pneumonia and congestive heart failure … until her body finally could take it no more,” manager Sue Cameron said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“Phoebe was one of the brightest, funniest and most talented singer-songwriters of all time and, more importantly, a magnificent mother to her late brain-damaged daughter, Valerie, for 31 years.<\/p>\n
“Phoebe felt that was her greatest accomplishment,” Ms Cameron added.<\/p>\n
Born Phoebe Ann Laub in New York City in 1950, the singer changed her name after seeing Phoebe Snow, a fictional advertising character for a railroad, on trains that passed through her hometown in New Jersey.<\/p>\n
Her acclaimed 1974 self-titled album debut reached number four in the chart, spawning the hit Poetry Man as well as earning Snow a best new artist Grammy nomination.<\/p>\n
A year later, when Valerie was born with hydrocephalus, a buildup of fluid in the brain cavity, Snow decided to care for her at home rather than place her in a hospital.<\/p>\n
Although she was not expected to live more than a few years, Valerie later died in 2007 aged 31.<\/p>\n
“Occasionally I put an album out, but I didn’t like to tour, and they didn’t get a lot of label support,” the singer told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2008.<\/p>\n
“But you know what? It didn’t really matter because I got to stay home more with Valerie, and that time was precious.”<\/p>\n
Over the years, Snow performed with the likes of Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Chaka Khan and Jackson Browne and performed at the Woodstock 25th anniversary festival in 1994.<\/p>\n
In 2003, she released the CD Natural Wonder, her first album of new, original material in 14 years.<\/p>\n
She released her last album in 2008, titled Live.<\/p>\n
A memorial concert is expected to be announced in due course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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