June is Black Music Month--to celebrate I’m including links to information pertaining to Madame Lillian Evanti (1890 – 1967), the first recognized African American to sing with a European company. In 1925 she made her operatic debut in Delides’s Lakmé in Nice, France, and performed at the White House for President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934. To read the 2006 Black Music Month Proclamation by President Bush click here.
To view Madame Evanti Wikipedia enter here. However, Cultural Tourism DC, African American Heritage Trail contains more information.
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