ABOUT JESSYE NORMAN
American opera singer best known for her roles in the operas of Richard Wagner , such as Lohengrin, Tannhäuser and Tristan and Isolde.
She was singing in the Mount Calvary Baptist Church by age four.
She received a Grammy for Lifetime Achievement in 2006.
Her father was an insurance salesman, and her mother was a schoolteacher.
In 1980, she played the title role in the Richard Strauss opera Ariadne auf Naxos.
