Here is the New York Times obituary for Mary Cleere Haran...
She was struck in the side, while on her bicycle, by a car leaving a parking lot, after leaving her resume' at a local Florida hotel. She never regained consciousness.
Stephen Holden, one of her greatest champions, called her "A singer of remarkable purity whose simple unaffected pop-jazz style echoed big band singers of the 1940s, most notably Ella Fitzgerald"
Rex Reed commented on her last New York cabaret run in Fall 2009: "There’s honeysuckle in the air when she croons “Moon River,” and with a voice shimmering and polished as Sunday night silverware..."
I remember when she appeared at Gregory Dawson's The Ballroom in 1988 which Mr Holden reports to have been "her Manhattan cabaret debut in 1988". She and I appeared on many of the same benefits and award shows during the late 1980's and 1990's...
Haran was taking a restorative hiatus from show business in Florida. She was only 58.
