SHIRLEY, GEORGE IRVING

SHIRLEY, GEORGE IRVING. Concert/opera singer (18 April 1934 in Indianapolis, Indiana). His family moved to Detroit, Michigan, when he was six years old, and it was there that he first studied music. In his youth he gave vocal recitals at neighborhood churches and played baritone horn in a community band. About 1950 he decided to enter music as a career and majored in music education at Wayne State University in Detroit (B.S., 1955). He studied further with Amos Ebersole...