Florence Foster Jenkins
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican soprano, renowned for her lack of musical skill and singing ability (1868-1944)
Florence Foster Jenkins was an American socialite and amateur coloratura soprano who became known and mocked for her flamboyant performance costumes and notably poor singing ability. Stephen Pile, in his book The Book of Heroic Failures ranked her "the world's worst opera singer ...
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Florence Foster Jenkins was an American socialite and amateur coloratura soprano who became known and mocked for her flamboyant performance costumes and notably poor singing ability. Stephen Pile, in his book The Book of Heroic Failures ranked her "the world's worst opera singer ... No one, before or since, has succeeded in liberating themselves quite so completely from the shackles of musical notation."
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