Check out "Phoebe Snow's success comes after great sorrow" in the San Francisco Chronicle. It's about Snow's revitalized singing career and coping with the death of her daughter, who had special needs.

...She's a Buddhist, a practitioner of the Nichiren Shoshu style, whose practitioners chant "Nam-myoho-renge-kyo" as a meditation tool. She says her practice is the main thing keeping her going after the death of her daughter.

"When Valerie died, I thought I would rail against my religious practice," Snow says. "I questioned it at first for obvious reasons. But then my faith deepened. I became much more devoted. I found, almost ... I'm trying to find the right word to describe it ... sanctuary."

Check out Snow's most recent CD.