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August 6, 2016

Leroy Jenkins

Leroy Jenkins began his violin training as a child, received a BS in Music Education from Florida A&M University in 1961 and then taught music in the schools of Alabama and Chicago. Having studied...

February 13, 2021

Roy Jennings

Roy Jennings is the Minister of Music at the Bronx Baptist Church. He was formerly Assistant Minister of Music at the famed Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem where he served as a musician for...

July 4, 2020

Christine Jobson

Christine Jobson, soprano, from Miami, Florida, has performed in Spain, Portugal, Austria, Russia, the Bahamas, Bermuda, and throughout the United States. Operatic roles include the title role in Massenet’s Cendrillon, Musetta in La Bohème,...

August 6, 2016

Candace Johnson

Candace Johnson received her Doctorate of Musical Arts in 2006 in voice performance at the University of Michigan, where she studied with Shirley Verr

June 30, 2020

Hall Johnson

Born Francis Hall Johnson but better known as just plain Hall Johnson, this important artist was equally known for his compositions, the formation of several world-famous choirs, and a series of superb publications concerning...

August 6, 2016

J. Rosamond Johnson

John Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954), most often referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson, was a composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson, from the United States, is most notable as the composer of Lift...