Jessye Norman, Grammy-winning star of opera, dies at 74
She established herself in Europe in the 1970s and made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1983.
Norman died in a New York hospital of septic shock and multiple organ failure related to complications from a spinal cord injury in 2015, her family said. Born on 15 September 1945, Norman grew up in a family of amateur artists and sang in church from the age of four. She earned a scholarship to study music at the historically black college Howard University in Washington DC before going on to the Peabody Conservatory and the University of Michigan.
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