Nellie McKay, the 19-year-old with one of the winter’s hottest records, writes lyrics like a gonzo Cole Porter, sings like an attitudinal Peggy Lee—and lives with her mother in Harlem. She wouldn’t mind being a sex symbol, but nothing like Britney. “I’ll go the Garbo route,” she says. ... Read the story
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Nellie McKay, the 19-year-old with one of the winter’s hottest records, writes lyrics like a gonzo Cole Porter, sings like an attitudinal Peggy Lee—and lives with her mother in Harlem. She wouldn’t mind being a sex symbol, but nothing like Britney. “I’ll go the Garbo route,” she says. ... Read the story
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