COLLINS, CLEOTA JOSEPHINE

COLLINS, CLEOTA JOSEPHINE. Concert singer (24 September 1893 in Cleveland, Ohio; 7 July 1976 in Pasadena, California). As a child she sang in her father's church choir. She obtained her musical education at the Cleveland Conservatory of Music and later studied at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, at Ohio State University, Columbia University Teachers' College in New York, and the Juilliard School of Music in New York. Her voice teachers included E. Azalia Hackley , Lila Robeson of...