Charlotte Fellman
She spent her career as a music teacher in the Boston Public Schools, coordinating music programs in schools throughout the city, and receiving several awards for music education.
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Toni Braxton
Rhythm-and-blues artist Toni Braxton launched her recording career with Atlanta’s LaFace Records label in the early 1990s and has gone on to win numerous Grammy Awards and American Music Awards. Her best-known songs include “Breathe Again” (1993), “Un-Break My Heart” (1996), “You’re Makin’ Me High” (1996), and “He Wasn’t Man Enough” (2000).
Veronica Cianchettini
Czech pianist and composer
Dorothy Masuku
South African singer, composer and a hero of the struggle
Aretha Franklin
The “Queen of Soul”, twice named the greatest singer of all time by Rolling Stone
Sibongile Khumalo
South Africa’s divine diva
June Kuramoto
Koto artist
Elaine Brown
African-American political activist
Dottie Peoples
Gospel singer and songwriter Dottie Peoples is one of Georgia’s most renowned figures in Christian music. Hailed as the “Songbird of the South” by the late radio host Esmond J. Patterson, Peoples has been compared to gospel and rhythm-and-blues artists Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, and Patti LaBelle.
Mattiwilda Dobbs
The first African American to sing at La Scala in Milan, Italy, and the first African-American woman to be offered a long-term contract by the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York.