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Settling in Philadelphia, Greenfield ran a music studio and promoted Black singers. Among her voice pupils was Thomas Bowers. [19] [20] She was a member of the Philadelphia Shiloh Baptist Church, and directed its choir. [11] [2] In the 1860s she created an opera troupe, the Black Swan Opera Troupe, with Bowers, which she directed.
Alyson Cambridge (born 1980): operatic soprano and classical music, jazz, and American popular song singer Cam'ron (born 1976): Hip hop Canon (born 1989): Christian hip hop
He started off his drumming career by joining the Los Angeles punk band Wasted Youth in 1984. After recording two albums and several tours, he left Wasted Youth and joined Sugartooth in 1991. During the summer of 1994, he formed a short-lived punk rock band named Chronic Halitosis. [5] They played punk covers of bands like Misfits and Black ...
In 1960, at 26, he won a National Arts Club scholarship competition, [4] and the following April he was the first Black singer to win the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions scholarship competition. [5] Shirley is the first Black tenor and the second Black male to sing leading roles for the Metropolitan Opera. [2] He sang there for 11 ...
Jill Jones (born July 11, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress, who performed as a backing vocalist for Teena Marie and Prince in the 1980s. She is best known for her various collaborative works with Prince in the 1980s and 1990s, including her self-titled debut album in 1987.
In 2016, Philadelphia resident Branford Jones started They Have the Range, a popular Instagram account with one million followers, dedicated to showcasing Black singers. “When I created it ...
The Inglewood resident was one of very few Black men to have success in country music in the 1970s, and one of two known Black male artists from California who performed at a nationally-charting ...
"Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" is about succeeding despite having faced previous disadvantages ("so many things that held us down"). It was widely interpreted to be about the experience of the African American community, and after attaining popularity, became referred to as "the new black national anthem" [4] (the original being the 1900 song "Lift Every Voice and Sing").