A Seattle singer who turned a 1990 ballad into an international standard.
If you only know one Oleta Adams song, it's probably 'Get Here (If You Can).' But 'I Just Had To Hear Your Voice' from the 'Eve' album shows the same quiet intensity.
Adams matters because she took a song like 'Get Here (If You Can)' and made it feel both intimate and universal. That 1990 single became the kind of record people remember where they were when they first heard it. She brings that same grounded presence to everything from holiday standards to gospel numbers like 'Holy Is The Lamb'.
She grew up singing gospel in Seattle and playing piano from her grandmother's lessons. After years with local bands, her 1990 album 'Circle of One' broke through internationally. She kept recording through the '90s, working with artists like Sinéad O'Connor and putting out albums like 'Moving On' in 1995.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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