PRICE, LEONTYNE

PRICE, LEONTYNE. Opera singer (10 February 1927 in Laurel, Mississippi). She came from a musical family; her father played tuba in a church band, and her mother sang solos with the church choir. She began piano study at the age of four and later sang in the church choir. At nine she heard a concert by Marian Anderson in Jackson, Mississippi, and it made a lasting impression upon her, inspiring her to plan for a career in music—at first as a...