February 10, 1927 Mary Violet Leontyne Price, operatic soprano, was born in Laurel, Mississippi. Price earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Central State College in 1948 and her first important stage performance was in the 1952 production of “Falstaff.”
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Mary Violet Leontyne Price – February 10th in African American History
By Chimsima Zuhri on February 10, 2014 in African American History, Author, February, Music
Tags: Broadway, Central State College, February 10, Grammy Award, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Kennedy Center Honors, NAACP, National Medal of Arts, opera, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Spingarn Medal
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