Ruby Yoshino
A celebrated opera soprano, Ruby Yoshino was among the first Nisei to achieve national stardom as a singer, and later served as president of the New York City Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) chapter.
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Florence Macbeth
Florence Macbeth won international acclaim as an operatic soprano during the 1910s and 1920s. Known as “the Minnesota nightingale,” Macbeth made hundreds of concert and recital appearances during her career. She toured the U.S. with the Chicago Opera Company for fourteen years before retiring from singing in the 1930s.
Abbie Carrington
American opera singer
Sissieretta Jones
Sissieretta Jones sang for kings, presidents, and to audiences around the world, becoming the highest paid African-American entertainer of the late 19th century.
Hana Shimozumi
As a young opera star, Shimozumi encountered frequent incredulity at her unaccented English from those who assumed she a Japanese national. During World War II she was sent to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center solely because of her Japanese ancestry.
Marian Anderson
Civil rights icon and African American contralto, who had a ground-breaking career in classical music from the mid-1920s through the late 1950s.
Caterina Galli
Italian opera singer and composer
Célestine Galli-Marié
1800s French singer
Maria Levinia Guadagni
1700s Italian singer
Adelaide Borghi-Mamo
Celebrated mezzo-soprano singer in the 1800s