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| Born | March 6, 1985 |
| Hometown | Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, South Africa |
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‘I hope we can recognise the vital role music plays within a society’
- It was almost surreal for me to be sitting in Westminster Abbey in the same pews I sat in when I was at school at Westminster 60 years ago hearing my anthem alongside a superbly performed programme of choral music. Westminster Abbey is the building that introduced me to architecture when I was a small boy. Architecture and music have been the great passions of my life ever since I can remember.
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Pretty Yende recognised as role model by US Glamour Mag
Pretty Yende recognised as role model by US Glamour Mag
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From Pretty Yende to Black Coffee: SA stars making headlines
From Pretty Yende to Black Coffee: SA stars making headlines
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Meet Pretty Yende: Wendy Williams' Favorite Soprano
Even among the most talented of operatic sopranos, few make it to the most prestigious stages of the world; fewer still achieve that and then achieve viral fame after a performance on The Tonight Show With Stephen Colbert -- or bring Wendy Williams to tears when meeting the talk-show queen in her office. But Pretty Yende has done all that.
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Opera singer Pretty Yende says new album highlights her young career
Born into a musical family in South Africa, operatic soprano Pretty Yende grew up singing gospel music in church. In 2001, at the age of 16 in her hometown of Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, she heard the Flower Duet from Léo Delibes' opera "Lakmé" in a television commercial. "When I was told it was humanly possible, I said, well, 'teach me.'" After seven years of performing live around the world, Yende released her debut album titled, "A Journey," on Sept. 16, which highlights some of the best
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LOOK: Hottest Opera Stars Of 2013
In this Jan. 11, 2013 photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera, Juan Diego Florez, performs as Count Ory with Pretty Yende as Countess Adele during a dress rehearsal of Rossini's "Le Comte Ory," at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The striking Polish tenor Piotr Beczala will star in the Metropolitan Opera's unusual staging of "Rigoletto" set in 1960s Las Vegas to honor Verdi's 200th birthday.
