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Grace Bumbry, 1st Black Singer at Bayreuth, Dies at 86

By RONALD BLUM, Associated Press 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. She was 86. Bumbry died Sunday at Evangelisches Krankenhaus, a hospital in Vienna, according […]

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