Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Friday, Oct. 11, 2019 photo, a new street sign was unveiled during the Jessye Norman Boulevard honorary street naming ...

FILE - This Sept. 18, 2007 file photo shows soprano Jessye Norman performing during The Dream Concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The Metropolitan Opera will hold a tribute to Jessye Norman ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - This time last year, Jessye Norman School of the Arts was preparing for its annual benefit concert, and Hurricane Helene forced them to cancel the event. The cancellation ...

Besides singing, Norman dedicated her life to helping others and shaping the country's youth art programs Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has been with ...

Opera legend Jessye Norman and her new memoir of growing up black in the segregated South and taking the world stage with her song. Jessye Norman performs during The Dream Concert at Radio City Music ...

Jessye Norman, a heralded soprano opera singer who won four Grammy Awards and the National Medal of Arts in the United States, has died at the age of 74, her family says. Norman died in New York on ...

In this photograph taken on April 13, 1984, US soprano Jessye Norman (R) poses with Spanish tenor Alfredo Kraus (L) and then Culture Minister Jack Lang (C) after they received the Commandre de l’ordre ...

Watch and listen to recent highlights, including Nicole Scherzinger on Broadway, a pair of Janacek operas and Cécile McLorin Salvant. By Joshua Barone, Seth Colter Walls, Zachary Woolfe and Oussama ...

Composer Evelyn Simpson Curenton on "Spirituals in Concert" Composer Evelyn Simpson Curenton discusses how she composed "Spirituals in Concert." When I first saw the concert, 'Spirituals in Concert' ...

Jessye Norman's commanding soprano voice makes her the quintessential operatic diva for many listeners. But she frequently draws inspirations from jazz: She ranks singers like Billie Holiday, Mabel ...

Heroes never fade from memory. Last year, on Sept. 30, 2019, the great American soprano Jessye Norman died suddenly. She was just 74. Like many Black artists in America, Norman didn't have it easy.