"In her younger years, Annie Clark, the forty-three-year-old singer-songwriter who performs as St. Vincent, was twice mistaken for a prostitute at the Carlyle hotel. The first instance was an outgrowth of her sketchy sublet arrangement. While she lived in a rent-controlled apartment in the East Village, the man who actually held the lease led an itinerant life of luxury, staying at the Carlyle when he was in town."
"It is with no small measure of satisfaction that Clark is now preparing for a three-night engagement, beginning on October 28th, at Café Carlyle, the hotel's storied cabaret, where Bobby Short, Eartha Kitt, and Barbara Cook defined uptown elegance in the second half of the twentieth century. "There's a part of me that, for a long time, has lived in fear of the jazz police," she said, "and I think this is something that will liberate me from that fear.""
Annie Clark was twice mistaken for a prostitute at the Carlyle hotel in her younger years. The first incident stemmed from a sketchy sublet in which the leaseholder stayed at the Carlyle and Clark collected blank checks to pay rent. One summer she entered wearing a crop top and shorts and received a withering stare at the front desk. The second incident occurred while waiting at Bemelmans Bar in an Alexander McQueen dress when an older man suggested she could 'perform' for him. Clark is preparing a three-night engagement at Café Carlyle after playing twenty songs with a full orchestra at the BBC Proms.
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