AUGUSTA, Ga. - World-famous performers, civil rights leaders and people who know her good works are gathering for the funeral of international opera star Jessye Norman in her Georgia hometown. Norman ...

ATLANTA — The music community is mourning the loss of Jessye Norman, an Augusta native and opera singer who died of complications from a spinal cord injury. She was 74. Norman was most known for her ...

In this Friday, Oct. 11, 2019 photo, a new street sign was unveiled during the Jessye Norman Boulevard honorary street naming ceremony in Augusta, Ga. The city renamed a street for Norman outside the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jessye Norman was remembered as a force of nature as thousands filled the Metropolitan Opera House on Sunday for a celebration of the soprano, who died Sept. 30 at age 74. Sopranos ...

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.

When Laurence Fishburne needed inspiration as a struggling young actor, he looked at photos of great artists to help him focus, including international opera star Jessye Norman. At Norman’s funeral ...

NEW YORK -- 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, according ...