Pop singer Phoebe Snow was born Phoebe Laub in New York City in 1952 and grew up in New Jersey, where she studied piano and guitar throughout her childhood. In the early 1970s Laub adopted the stage name Phoebe Snow -- taken from the name of an old passenger train which ran from Hoboken, N.J. to Buffalo, N.Y. She began playing in New York nightclubs, where she quickly gained a following with her smooth jazz- and blues-influenced pop style, influenced mainly by Aretha Franklin. Her eponymous 1974 debut album, released by Shelter Records, spawned the Top 5 hit "Poetry Man," pushing the album into the Top 5. Her 1976 follow-up, Second Childhood, went gold, but over the next few years her popularity tapered off as she devoted more time to her family and less time to touring. After spending most of the 1980s away from the recording studio, Snow returned to public attention in 1989 with the adult contemporary effort Something Real, which featured the Top 20 hit "If I Can Just Get Through The Night." After another period away from music, Snow released I Can't Complain, an album of blues covers, in February 1998.
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