Dawn Upshaw is an American Soprano known greatly throughout the world of classical music and the opera singing scene. Upshaw was born in Nashville, Tennesse on July 17th, 1960. Her singing began after her families move to Park Forest, Illinois at Rich East Highschool. Her voice in the choir (known as the Singing Rockets) was greatly appreciated and she was promoted to be the lead vocalist. This was the first to ever happen, to a female sophomore. Later in 1982 Upshaw received her B.A. from Illinois Wesleyan University, where she studied voice with the late Dr. David Nott. She eventually went on to study under Ellen Faull at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. She earned her M.M. from there in 1984. Her former professor David Nott had a son named Michael who was a musicologist. He became Upshaw's husband in 1986 (she has two kids with him and they are now divorced). From that point on, Dawn continued to travel, attend voice classes, and work with different people to better her voice and music career. …show more content…
Dawn began premiering in multiple works to build her repertoire and strengthen her career. She appeared in pieces such as L’Amour de Loin by Kaija Saariaho, The Great Gatsby by John Harbison. In addition to her opera career, she has also sung the title role in the first complete recording of the score of Gershwin's Oh, Kay!. She was also a guest of President Bill Clinton for the NBC news special Christmas in Washington. She was then on multiple formats of tv broadcasts and began getting interviewed quite
Ethel Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania on October 31, 1896. She had a hard life in which she faced rejection from her mother and poverty. Waters' love of singing began as a child when she sang in church choirs but her childhood was cut short when at thirteen she married an abusive man, dropped out of sixth grade, and was divorced a year later. Shortly thereafter, she began working as a maid until two vaudeville producers discovered her while she was singing in a talent contest in 1917. She toured with vaudeville shows, and was billed as "Sweet Mama Stringbean" because of her height and thinness. In 1919, she left the vaudeville circuit and performed in Harlem nightclubs. Two years later she became one of the first black singers to cut a record on the Black Swan Record label with her release of "Down Home Blues" and "Oh, Daddy".
The athlete I chose is Natasha Watley. She is a professional softball player and the first African-American female to play on the USA softball team in the Olympics. She’s a former collegiate 4-time First Team All-American who played for the UCLA Bruins, the USA Softball Women’s National Team, and for the USSSA Pride. She helped the Bruins will multiple championships and also holds numerous records and one of the few players to bat at least .400 with 300 hits, 200 runs, and 100 stolen bases. She’s also the career hits leader in the National Pro Fast pitch. She won the gold medal in the 2004 summer Olympics and a silver in the Beijing Olympics. She was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014.
This is a wild story of Lamora Williams who is accused of cooking his two sons alive in an oven and is facing the charges of two murders right now.
Do you know who Sarah Thomas is? She is the NFL’s first female full time and most accomplished female referee. She was born in 1973 in Pascagoula, Mississippi. When she was in highschool she played basketball and softball. The officials never liked her because she would always try to make them change the call and she would disagree with them. It was the same when she went to the University of Mobile. She wanted to stay involved with sports after she graduated, so she joined a church basketball league for men.She played with them for two years until she was told she could no longer play.
Ellen Renshaw House was only nineteen years old when she begins to write about her experiences in Knoxville. Originally she was born in Savannah, Georgia where her father would work as a customs collector and a trade Commissioner. Everything would soon change as her mother Frances Fannie House began to become ill. Her family then for her mother’s health moved to Marietta. Here Samuel Crawford House will make himself a name as a Planter and an owner of slaves in the town. Their stay in Marietta does not last long, as Ellen’s brother Sam moves to Knoxville to do business. He is able to convince his father that the best place to join together for business trade is Knoxville. Knoxville is a town that is split between Unionists and Rebels. Through
... artistic renderings of the enthusiastic songs of her time. More than anything, it is this love of performing that won her the hearts of millions throughout the world.
	Another contribution to her career was when Neve was involved in the theatre. After her quitting dancing, she had turned out to be the Degas girl in "The Phantom of the Opera". She preformed at the Pantages theatre in Toronto. Neve had preformed in over 800 shows when she was done in "The Phantom of the Opera" Neve says she likes the theatre because she gets an automatic response from the audience. It was this part of her career that Neve found the love of acting, not only on a stage but to reach higher in her career and be a movie star.
Born on November 21st, 1956, Cherry Jones was born in Paris TN. She was born to a high school teacher mother and a flower shop owner father. She was born as a tomboy and spent a lot of her time outdoors, and never excelled in school very well. As she progressed in age, her mother often inspired her in many ways, one being an actress. As a teen Cherry attended Henry County High School where she began her acting career with the help of teacher, Linda Miller.
The music, which was composed and conducted by Thomas Newman also includes orchestrations by Thomas Pasatieri. Featured musical soloists include George Doering, Michael Fisher, Rick Cox, Sid Paige, Steve Kujala, Jon Clarke, George Budd, and Bill Bernstein.
What is it like to live a life with Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)? Narcissism is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy. People with this disorder can be vindictive, selfish, cunning person. They do not care who is harmed or hurt. Abigail was the leader of all of the girls that were seen dancing and calling on evil spirits. Abigail would threaten the girls by saying if they said anything, she would kill or harm them severely. She wanted what she couldn’t have, so that made her psychologically unstable. Abigail William’s would be convicted in today’s court because she gave many threats to kill the girls who were with her the night they were dancing if they spoke up in court, her behavior caused harm to many even though she may not have physically done damage herself and due to previous court cases, some people diagnosed with Narcissism were found innocent due to their mental instability but others were guilty because they were mentally unstable. As it is shown, Narcissistic Personality Disorder causes her to be selfish, arrogant, dangerous, and obsess over the man she could not have, because Abigail threatened the girls she was with the night they were dancing, to not confess to anything in court.
At the age of nineteen she met and married Louis Jones. Together they had two children Gail and Teddy (who later died in 1970 from kidney failure). While trying to get used to raising a family and having a career, she received a call from an agent, who had seen her at the Cotton Club, about a part in a movie. Her controlling husband allowed her to be in “The Duke is Tops” and also the musical revue “Blackbirds of 1939."
Not only a great singer, she taught herself how to play the guitar and the harp, and
performed a couple of surprise shows at the Carter Family Fold outside Bristol, Virginia. At the May 21, 2003 concert, before singing
Civil rights activist, Daisy Bates was at the core of the school desegregation catastrophe in Little Rock, Arkansas in September 1957. Bates used her position as president of a local Arkansas branch of the NAACP to strategically destroy the segregated school system. Her civil rights work involved changing the policies of the Arkansas Public School System that promoted segregation of school students, which in turn denied equality of educational resources and qualitative instruction to Arkansas’ Negro students. This fight for civil rights for students of color caused a fundamental shift in how the state educated its students both Black and White. Her plan halted the nation to expose the segregation in the Arkansas school district. Bates advocated for Black children to attend public schools that had been segregated arguing that the school system needed to be desegregated. As a result of argument, Bates became the mentor to nine African-American students, who enrolled in
Bowers, Jane M., and Judith Tick. Women making music: the Western art tradition, 1150-1950. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.