RHEA, LA JULIA

RHEA, LA JULIA. Concert/opera singer (16 March c1908 in Louisville, Kentucky). She began piano study at the age of five. As a child she sang in a church choir, of which her aunt was director-organist. She obtained her musical education in the public schools of Louisville; during her high school years she heard Florence Cole Talbert sing and was inspired to become a concert singer. When she was sixteen her family moved to Chicago, Illinois, where she studied at the...