Come To My Garden was produced by Charles Stepney in 1970 and sold almost nothing on release. It is now considered one of the most extraordinary albums in soul history. Stepney built orchestral architecture around Riperton's five-octave voice — strings, woodwinds, harp — in arrangements of such complexity that the record sounds like it arrived from another era. Riperton, who was 23 when it was recorded, was the only singer who could navigate what he was building. She died of cancer at 31, in 1979.
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