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Kathleen Battle
Opera SingerAbout
Lyric soprano who was one of the most well-known African American opera singers from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
Before Fame
She was working as a sixth grade music teacher when she earned her first major choir solo.
Trivia
- She won a 1992 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Classical Music.
Family Life
She grew up in Porstmouth, Ohio with six older siblings.
Associated With
She joined Ella Fitzgerald as a member of the NAACP Hall of Fame in 1999.
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