Albertina Walker
Singer-songwriter known as the “Queen of Gospel Music”
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Amma D McKen
McKen has sung traditional sacred Yoruba music since she was 14 and is recognized as a Priestess of Yemonja.
Ola Belle Reed
US Appalachian folk singer, songwriter and banjo player
Elizabeth Cronin
Irish folk singer
June Carter Cash
June Carter Cash was a country and folk singer and the wife of Johnny Cash.
Rosetta Pampanini
1900s Italian lyric soprano
Meta Seinemeyer
Berlin-born Meta Seinemeyer was a lyric-dramatic soprano with a voice whose rich qualities were captured on many recordings.
Maria Olszewska
Born in a Bavarian village, opera singer Maria Olszewska chose her stage name from the Munich phone book. ous.
Margarete Matzenauer
Margarete Matzenauer, a contralto soprano, was perhaps the most outstanding example of her type of voice in the 1920s.
Kerstin Thorborg
A superb Swedish mezzo-soprano, Kerstin Thorborg made her debut with the Swedish Royal Opera, singing small roles in 1923 and moving to larger parts the next year. She went next to German theaters and then to Prague, Vienna, Salzburg, London, and to the Metropolitan Opera where she sang from 1936 until 1950.