Billie Barry
Irish performer and stage school founder
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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
Joséphine de Méric
1800s opera singer
Susan Sunderland
1800s singer
Lucrezia Aguiari
1700s opera singer
Giulia Frasi
170s opera singer