Laura Nyro Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Laura Nyro? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Laura Nyro from Pop & Contemporary and what is the personality traits.
INTP (4w5)
Laura Nyro personality type is INTP, which means that she is the type that prefers to spend time alone rather than with others. She is also one of the few artists who does not have any group influence on her music.
Nyro's father was an astrologer and mystic, and she was raised with a fascination for astrological signs and stars. She was always fascinated with astrology and read books on the subject as a child, and was also interested in numerology, tarot cards, and palm reading.
Nyro's first attempts to write songs came during her childhood. While attending the prestigious Hunter College High School for Girls, she began writing poetry and songs at age 12. She would later recall that "I used to write poems because I thought they were the most beautiful things I had ever seen, and I wanted to try to approximate them." She wrote many poems throughout her childhood, and continued to do so until she was 17 years old.
At age 17, Nyro went to live with her aunt in Queens, New York. It was there that she began to perform in cafes and coffeehouses, where she would sing her own songs.
Laura Nyro was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist. She achieved critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession and New York Tendaberry, and had commercial success with artists such as Barbra Streisand and the 5th Dimension recording her songs. Wider recognition for her artistry was posthumous while her contemporaries such as Elton John idolized her. She was praised for her strong emotive vocal style and 3-octave mezzo-soprano vocal range. Between 1968 and 1970, a number of artists had hits with her songs: The 5th Dimension with "Blowing Away", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "Sweet Blindness", and "Save the Country"; Blood, Sweat & Tears and Peter, Paul and Mary with "And When I Die"; Three Dog Night and Maynard Ferguson with "Eli's Comin'"; and Barbra Streisand with "Stoney End", "Time and Love", and "Hands off the Man".
