Bumbry

/ ˈbʌmbrɪ /

noun

1. Grace . born 1937, US soprano and mezzo-soprano

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Grace Bumbry, 86, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany’s Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world’s top operatic stages, died May 7 in Vienna after suffering a stroke.

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Lives Lived: Grace Bumbry’s vocal range and transcendent stage presence made her a towering figure in opera and one of its first, and biggest, Black stars.

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Bumbry, known mostly as a mezzo but who also performed some soprano roles. was inspired when her mother took her to a recital of Marian Anderson, the American contralto who in 1955 became the first Black singer at New York’s Metropolitan Opera.

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Bumbry was predeceased by brothers Charles and Benjamin.

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Bumbry was born Jan. 4, 1937, in St. Louis.

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