Pat Suzuki
Nisei singer and star of Flower Drum Song on Broadway.
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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.
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.
Lara Fabian
One of Belgium’s best-selling musicians, whose platinum-certified albums includePure, Lara Fabian, Carpe Diem, and Nue.
Angèle Van Laeken
Belgian singer
Billie Holiday
Jazz and blues icon
Abbie Carrington
American opera singer
Abby Hutchinson Patton
American singer and poet
Jamila Jones
Jamila Jones sang professionally as a teenager with the Montgomery Gospel Trio and the Harambee Singers. In 1958, she came to the Highlander Folk School for nonviolent activist training.
Nicolle Swims
Nicolle Swims is a Black, Queer and Nonbinary musician who is the guitarist and vocalist of local Seattle gunk-pop band Black Ends