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Mary Violet Leontyne Price is an extraordinary spinto soprano.
“My voice is me, what can I say? My voice is what I think life is, my voice is beauty, my voice is America, my voice is my blackness, my voice is love, my voice is God.” Leontyne Price, video interview by Robert Jacobson of Opera News for the Kennedy Center - 1980.
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William Warfield (m. 1952-1973)
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Whitney Houston (first cousin once removed - maternal)
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Florence Page Kimball (The Julliard School)
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