Leontyne Price
The opera singer Mary Violet Leontyne Price was born on February 10, 1927 in a segregated black neighbourhood of Laurel, Mississippi. Thanks to some financial help by friends of her family Price was able to pursue music studies and eventually obtained a scholarship to the Julliard School. She had her breakthrough as Bess in a 1954 production of Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess”. In the sixties Price rose to international fame; she is today considered one of the finest opera singers of the second part of the 20th century. Price retired in 1997.
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