She's best known for singing arias on opera stages the world over, but Norman's new CD finds her in front of a live audience, singing jazz and... Jessye Norman: Back To Her 'Roots' Jessye Norman: Back ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jessye Norman, the renowned international opera star whose passionate soprano voice won her four Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honor, has died, ...

This is FRESH AIR. The celebrated African American soprano Jessye Norman died Monday in New York at the age of 74. Norman sang more than 80 times at the Metropolitan Opera and performed in opera ...

Next season at Carnegie Hall, Jessye Norman will “curate” a “celebration of the African-American cultural legacy.” I’m not sure what “curate” means. But I will tell you this: Her recital at Carnegie ...

Whether she's singing or speaking, Jessye Norman's voice is unmistakable. That dark, gleaming sonority, the rounded vowels, the regal but all-American presence - it's an instantly recognizable package ...

Jessye Norman, the opera star who died earlier this week, had ties to Rochester. James Norman, who headed Action for a Better Community, was her younger brother. Jessye Norman sometimes traveled to ...

Opera legend Jessye Norman died Monday at age 74. The soprano died from septic shock and multi-organ failure secondary to complications of a spinal cord injury she had sustained in 2015, according to ...

Opera fans are mourning one of the world's most revered voices. Soprano Jessye Norman died Monday morning at Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital in New York. Her death was confirmed to NPR by a ...

Award-winning singer Jessye Norman has a problem with declining arts programs in America’s schools. “It is a big issue and it makes me completely crazy,” Norman told correspondent Jeffrey Brown, when ...

STAND UP STRAIGHT AND SING: A MEMOIR By Jessye Norman Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27, 316 pages, illustrated Jessye Norman is not exactly your typical diva. To begin with, she graduated not from ...

She's best known for singing arias on opera stages the world over, but Norman's new CD finds her in front of a live audience, singing jazz and... Jessye Norman: Back To Her 'Roots' Jessye Norman: Back ...