![]() ![]() She sang on CBS’s “Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts,” then attended Boston University College of Fine Arts. Louis Institute of Music, but she was denied admission because she was Black. She sang in the choir at Ville’s Sumner High School and won a talent contest sponsored by radio station KMOX that included a scholarship to the St. Her father, Benjamin, was a railroad porter and her mother, the former Melzia Walker, a school teacher. She had been in and out of facilities since, Brewer said Monday.īumbry was born Jan. She was stricken with the plane 15 minutes from landing, was treated at NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens and returned to Vienna on Dec. 20 while on a flight from Vienna to New York to attend her induction into Opera America’s Opera Hall of Fame. She was 86.īumbry died Sunday at Evangelisches Krankenhaus, a hospital in Vienna, according to her publicist, David Lee Brewer. ![]() NEW YORK (AP) - Grace Bumbry, 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 stages, has died. ![]()
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