Dreams of a Kitten by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Dreams of a Kitten

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Jackson Browne in late 1970 to early 1971. Browne was Nyro's

opening act at the time.

Nyro married Vietnam War veteran David Bianchini in October 1971

after a whirlwind romance and spent the next three years living

with him in a small town in Massachusetts. The marriage ended

after three years, during which time she had grown accustomed to

rural life, as opposed to the life in the city, where she had

recorded her first five records.

After Nyro split from Bianchini in 1975, she suffered the trauma

of the death of her mother Gilda to ovarian cancer at the age of

49. She consoled herself largely by recording a new album,

enlisting Charlie Calello, with whom she had collaborated on

“Eli and the Thirteenth Confession.”

In 1978, a short lived relationship with Harindra Singh produced

a son, Gil Bianchini; also known as musician Gil-T, whom she

gave the surname of her ex-husband.

In the early 1980s, Nyro began living with painter Maria

Desiderio, 1954-1999, a companionship that lasted 17 years, the

rest of Nyro's life.

Nyro was a feminist and openly discussed it on a number of

occasions, once saying, "I may bring a certain feminist

perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life."