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Jessye Norman
12+ albums
Classicaloperafemale vocalistssopranoUSA
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Jessye Mae Norman (Augusta, Georgia, USA, September 15, 1945 - September 30, 2019) was an American opera singer and recitalist. A dramatic soprano, Norman is associated in particular with the Wagnerian repertoire, and with the roles of Sieglinde, Ariadne, Alceste, and Leonore. Norman has been inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and is a Spingarn Medalist. Apart from receiving several honorary doctorates and other awards, she also received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Medal of Arts, and was a member of the British Royal Academy of Music. Norman was born in Augusta, Georgia, to Silas Norman, an insurance salesman, and Janie King-Norman, a schoolteacher. She was one of five children in a family of amateur musicians; her mother and grandmother were both pianists, and her father sang in a local choir. Norman's mother insisted that she start piano lessons at an early age. Norman attended Charles T. Walker Elementary School, A.R. Johnson Junior High School, and Lucy C. Laney Senior High School, all in downtown Augusta. Norman proved to be a talented singer as a young child, singing gospel songs at Mount Calvary Baptist Church at the age of four. When she was nine she was given a radio for her birthday and soon discovered the world of opera through the weekly broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera, which she listened to every Saturday while cleaning up her room. Norman started listening to recordings of Marian Anderson and Leontyne Price, whom Norman
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5,2152Meyerbeer - L'Africana: Addio, terra nativa
3,3423Dido and Aeneas: Dido's Lament
1,4804Les chemins de l'amour
4675His Eye Is On The Sparrow
4336African Drum Invocation
4327Chausson : 7 Mélodies Op.2 : VII Le colibri
4288Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
3289R. Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder - 4. Im Abendrot
30810R. Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder - 3. Beim Schlafengehen
283albums
The Last Night Of The Proms with BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Les chemins de l'amour - Songs By Duparc, Ravel, Poulenc & Satie
Recitals: An Evening with Jessye Norman
Roots: My Life, My Song
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Chausson : Poème de l'amour et de la mer, Chanson perpétuelle
The Very Best of Jessye Norman
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Mahler: Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn & Rückert-Lieder / Schubert: Lieder
The Unreleased Masters
Christmastide
Salzburg Recital
Jessye Norman - Sacred Songs
Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs; 6 Orchestral Songs