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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
In a 1987 televised interview, Kathleen Battle remarked "The culture I come from is just as rich as any Western European culture, therefore I believe what I'm bringing to it only enriches opera.Many times I am asked, 'How can you be from a small town in the Midwest and sing Mozart?' Mozart was a human being with emotions and a sense of humor..we all share these qualities as human beings. As a black performer in opera....I grew up on the music of the sixties, the Motown sound, and I was touched and moved and formed in some way by that." Detroit, Michigan native Sequina DuBose is from the home of Motown and also sings Mozart. She won 1st place in the Leontyne Price Vocal Arts Competition for Emerging Artists, and was awarded a Marian Anderson Scholar. Still in pursuit of her Professional Studies Certificate in Vocal Performance at the Manhattan School of Music, she has performed throughout the Czech Republic, Bermuda, Martinique, and Paris. Most notably, she has appeared as a soloist in the world premiere performance and recording of Wynton Marsalis', All Rise, with the Morgan State University Choir, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Watch this rising star!
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