Dorothea Jordan
“As an actress in comedy Dorothy Jordan can have had few equals, and no woman of the stage was ever more extravagantly praised by the eminent critics of her time.”
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Te Rangitopeora
Ngāti Toa leader, peacemaker, composer of waiata
Emma Louise Ashford
American musician and composer
Pauline Viardot
Spanish vocalist.
Liza Lehmann
English musical composer and vocalist
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
American composer and pianist
Adelaide Kemble
English opera singer and author
Cécile Chaminade
French musical composer
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Bernice Johnson Reagon is a renowned composer, historian, musician, and activist. She is also credited with founding Sweet Honey in the Rock, an all-female and all-Black acapella group. Much of her work centers Black identity and social justice and many of her musical projects highlight the Civil Rights Era.
Rihi Puhiwahine Te Rangi-hirawea
The most famous of the women of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Maniapoto in the nineteenth century was undoubtedly Rihi Puhiwahine Te Rangi-hirawea.