Hearing sing “Let It Be” is like hearing the song for the first time. You easily forget it’s a Beatles standard. She lives every song she sings as if she’s inventing it on the spot, and has a repertoire that runs from the sacred to the profane.

The daughter of a talented Pentecostal gospel singer who died two years ago at age 101, Suter grew up a rebel to her mother’s cause. There is a yin and a yang to her style.

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