Cynthia Crane is a New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 based jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 cabaret

Cabaret

Cabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies or...

 singer and former child actress, who has performed locally for forty years. She has been reviewed by the New York Times, Jazz Now, Jazz Times, Daily Variety

Variety (magazine)

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 and Time Out New York. John S. Wilson, in the New York Times, called her "Polished and compelling." In 2009 she became a victim in the Bernard Madoff

Bernard Madoff

Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff is a former American businessman, stockbroker, investment advisor, and financier. He is the former non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, and the admitted operator of a Ponzi scheme that is considered to be the largest financial fraud in U.S...

 financial fraud scheme and was forced to sell her 1909 Steinway

Steinway & Sons

Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway , is an American and German manufacturer of handmade pianos, founded 1853 in Manhattan in New York City by German immigrant Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg...

grand piano as a result.

External links

• Personal website
• http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/12/11/mm-madoffshow/
• http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/12/02/2009-12-02_a_year_later_in_new_york_its_madoff_as_cabaret.html
• http://nymag.com/nymag/toc/20090302/
• http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/12/getting_back_at_bernie_through.html
• http://lxtv.com/openhousenyc/video/10631
• http://www.montmartremoi.fr/une-americaine-pleure-paris-2/
• http://www.thevillager.com/villager_352/cabaretvet.html

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Madoff_Victim_Forced_to_Sell_Home_to_Pay_Debt_New_York-121820724.html
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_419/bernieblues.html