Style Icon: Evie Sands (26 February 1946)

Evie Sands is one of my favourite female recording artists. Gifted with a unique and powerful voice she was signed to the Red Bird/Blue Cat label in New York in 1965. That year she had hits with ‘Run Home To Your Mama’, ‘Take Me for a Little While’, and ‘Can’t Let You Go’ – see youtube link. Less prolific perhaps than most of her soul contemporaries during the 1960s, Evie Sands was one of a new rare breed of female singer songwriters and she went on to become an accomplished artist. If you are unfamiliar with Evie Sands, I recommend you check out her LP ‘Any Way That You Want Me’ (1970).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzleOI8W4yQ&feature=related