Jessye Norman
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"Jessye Mae Norman" is an (African American/African)-United States/American Grammy award-winning opera singer and recitalist. A dramatic soprano, Norman is associated in particular with the Richard Wagner/Wagnerian repertoire, and with the roles of Sieglinde, Ariadne, Alceste (Gluck)/Alceste, and Fidelio/Leonore. Norman has been inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and is a Spingarn Medalist. Apart from receiving several honorary doctorates and other awards, she has also received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Medal of Arts, and is a member of the British Royal Academy of Music.

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The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop quite naturally, and to let the person go on as long as possible with the sheer joy of singing . . .

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.