Angel Blue talks about how seeing the Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman perform influenced her love of opera.
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When I first saw the concert, 'Spirituals in Concert' with Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman, I was, I want to say I was seven years old, and the concert was very special to me because I've always wanted to sing opera. I've always wanted to be an opera singer since I was four years old.
And my sister, my older sister Heather, she also likes opera, she also studied voice.
So we took it upon ourselves to become Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle.
So we would hold hands in my sister's room and we would play on VHS 'He's Got The Whole World In His Hands,' and we would sing that back and forth to each other. Pardon.
And we'd sing it over and over again.
♪♪ He's got the whole world in His hands ♪♪ ♪♪ He's got the whole world in His hands ♪♪ ♪♪ He's got the whole world in His hands ♪♪ ♪♪ He's got the whole world in His hands ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ He's got the worlds and the waters in His Hands ♪♪ ♪♪ He's got the worlds and the waters in His Hands ♪♪ ♪♪ He's got the worlds and the waters in His Hands ♪♪ ♪♪ He's got the whole world in His hands ♪♪ ♪♪ [overlapping singing] ♪♪ He's got the whole world in His hands ♪♪ That moment with my sister is something that, for me, is a monumental experience.
This concert has been one of the things in my life I think that has kept me going in terms of opera and what it means to be a classical singer.
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