THIS album was both sentimental and moving and Eva's haunting voice reverberates in any room her music is played in, leaving a lump in the throat.

Her music is perhaps made more poignant by the fact that hardly anybody had heard her beautiful voice until after her untimely death at just 33.

Ms Cassidy died in 1996 from advanced melanoma, a form of skin cancer.

After her death, Terry Wogan began to play her songs on his radio show.

Britain had been introduced to a greatly talented vocalist.

A mixture of folk, jazz and a hint of country and western, Eva's voice spans vast musical styles demonstrating her great versatility.

On Imagine, the songstress does a superb version of Fever - the lyrics are changed which neither adds nor detracts from the original, but her voice is spine-tingling.

A great version of Danny Boy is also featured but the title song, although sung well, pales in comparison to John Lennon's original.

What lets the album down is perhaps its lack of more upbeat songs.

The powerfulness of Cassidy's voice is obvious but an album consisting of almost all ballads does not do this vocal quality justice.

HC