Opera Singer Leontyne Price

Leontyne Price

Living place: Laurel

Birthday: 10-2-1927 (97 years old)

Population of US 1927: 119,035,000

Global rank: #29083

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Opera Singer Leontyne Price profile

Who is Opera Singer Leontyne Price?
Grammy Award-winning African-American opera star who was honored with the 1980 Kennedy Center Honor and the National Medal of Arts in 1985. A spinto lirico from the deep south, she was one of those people. First African-American leadership at the Metropolitan Opera.
 
 

Young / Before famous

She was able to play the piano after her family traded their record for one. In high school she sang at various local functions, including mourning, for money.

Family life info

She married William Warfield on August 31, 1952 and they divorced in 1972.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Opera Singer Leontyne Price?
Lyndon B. Johnson awarded the Medal of Freedom in 1964.

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Summary of Leontyne Price profile

When was Opera Singer Leontyne Price born?
Leontyne Price birthday 10-2-1927 (at the age of 97).
Where is Opera Singer Leontyne Price's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Leontyne Price was born in Laurel, Mississippi- United States. is a Opera Singer, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Cat. Leontyne Price's global rank is 29083 and whose rank is 19 in list of famous Opera Singer. Population of US in 1927 is about 119,035,000 persons.
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Events in 1927 and 10-2

Events in US in the birth year of Leontyne Price

  • Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are electrocuted at Dedham (Mass.) Prison despite worldwide protesting over weak evidence (Aug. 23).
  • The Holland Tunnel opens (Nov. 13) to connect Manhattan and Jersey City, N.J., giving cars a route under the Hudson River and an alternative to ferry boats.

Birthday Leontyne Price (10-2) in history

  • Day 10-2 year 1763: The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the French and Indian War. France ceded Canada and all North American territories east of Mississippi to Great Britain.
  • Day 10-2 year 1837: Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was killed in a duel.
  • Day 10-2 year 1840: Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.
  • Day 10-2 year 1942: Glenn Miller received the first ever gold record for selling a million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo."
  • Day 10-2 year 1962: The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
  • Day 10-2 year 1967: The 25th Amendment was ratified, establishing presidential succession.
  • Day 10-2 year 1996: IBM's computer, Deep Blue, beat the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in the first game of their match.
  • Day 10-2 year 2005: Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller died.
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