Book Details

Leontyne Price Voice of a Century
Hardcover

Leontyne Price Voice of a Century

by Carole Boston Weatherford

Price

$17.00

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ISBN

9780375856068

Published

2014

Pages

40

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

About This Book

A stunning picture-book biography of iconic African American opera star Leontyne Price.

Born in a small town in Mississippi in 1927, the daughter of a midwife and a sawmill worker, Leontyne Price might have grown up singing the blues. But Leontyne had big dreams--and plenty to be thankful for--as she surrounded herself with church hymns and hallelujahs, soaked up opera arias on the radio, and watched the great Marian Anderson grace the stage.

While racism made it unlikely that