"Trained as a classical pianist, she was often called a jazz singer, but it was a label she deeply resented, seeing in it only a racial classification. She grudgingly accepted the popular nickname "the High Priestess of Soul" but gave it little significance. If anything, she claimed, she was a folk singer, and her dazzling, unpredictable repertoire--Israeli folk tunes, compositions by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, songs by the Bee Gees and Leonard Cohen and George Harrison, traditional ballads, jazz standards, spirituals, children's songs--is perhaps unmatched in its range." --