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…own tunes in my head," Chicorel recalls. "I don't read or write music so I worked with trained pianists to tran- scribe the ideas. I'd hum the songs on cassettes. "My early recordings ( The Songs of Raphael Chicorel and Bi2 in Love With You) featured jazz numbers, some with singers. I moved on to do one album based on Jean, a stage musical I wrote about the life of Jean Nidetch, the founder of Weight Watchers. "I did a CD musical version of Di...…

















































