Jessye Norman
Jessye Norman
Jessye Mae Normanis an American Grammy award-winning opera singer and recitalist. A dramatic soprano, Norman is associated in particular with the Wagnerian repertoire, and with the roles of Sieglinde, Ariadne, Alceste, and 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionOpera Singer
Date of Birth15 September 1945
CityAugusta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.
I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.
A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.
There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.
There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.