Renowned opera singer Jessye Norman was born in Augusta, Georgia, in segregationist times. She grew up singing in church and around a musical family that included pianists and singers.
Updated Sept. 30, 2019 7:13 pm ET
Jessye Norman, the renowned international opera star whose passionate soprano voice won her four Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honor, has died, according to family spokesperson Gwendolyn Quinn. She was 74. A statement released to the Associated Press on Monday said Ms. Norman died at 7:54 a.m. EDT from septic shock and multi-organ failure secondary to complications of a spinal cord injury she sustained in 2015. She died at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital in New York, and was surrounded by...
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