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NOW – Nyro was born Laura Nigro (pronounced as NIGH-gro) in the Bronx, New York City, the daughter of Louis Nigro, a piano tuner and jazz trumpeter, and Gilda (née Mirsky) Nigro, a bookkeeper. Laura had a younger brother, Jan Nigro, who has become a children’s musician.[7] Laura was of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent, with Italian-American ancestry from her paternal grandfather.
