He is never unfriendly to her. He always treats her like she is an important part of the organization.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Her love songs also seem more adult in subject, like the title track to the new album, "Can't Be Tamed."

VOA: special.2010.08.06

In the nineteen seventies, a supervisor asked her if she would like to do clinical research about pain.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

She considers composers like Ellen Zwilich and Libby Larsen to be mentors who opened up possibilities to her.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

She would like to be taller. But I tell her that good things come in small packages.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

But that is not all she and her family like to do to celebrate the New Year.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

One friend said: "Margaret Mead was not going to let a little thing like death stop her."

VOA: special.2010.01.17

They accused her of straightening black women's hair to make it look like white women's hair.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Fans loved the special way she rolled her "r"s to create a sound like a cat.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

But when she's a-spittin' like a wildcat,a man's got no call to live with her."

VOA: special.2009.11.14

Too many men had come to see her and she did not like that.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

She turned to writing music. She says like many of her albums, "The Age of Miracles" gives a brief look at where she is in her life.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

Merry Tigert says people like to have fun with her name at Christmastime.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

And,like other winners over the years, her training is not limited to economics.

VOA: special.2009.10.16