- Born
- Birth nameMary Leontyne Price
- Height1.68 m
- Leontyne Price was born on February 10, 1927 in Laurel, Mississippi, USA. She is an actress, known for Roméo + Juliette (1996), Great Performances at the Met (1977) and NBC Television Opera Theatre (1949). She was previously married to William Warfield.
- SpouseWilliam Warfield(August 31, 1952 - 1972) (divorced)
- One of the most famous and greatest American sopranos of the twentieth century, she was also the first major black singer to have a long-running star career at the Metropolitan Opera.
- Made her Metropolitan Opera debut on January 27, 1961.
- Her 1955 NBC-TV performance as Tosca was not carried by some television stations in the then racially segregated South.
- A member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
- She was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1985 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.
- Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that's why, in the case of noncompromising career women, parts of our personal lives don't work out. One person can't give you the feeling that thousands of people give you.
- On success: Accomplishments have no color.
- On growth: You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era-it should never leave you.
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