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Simon Estes

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American opera singer

United StatesMusiciansBorn 1938 · age 88
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Simon Estes is an operatic bass-baritone of African-American descent who had a major international opera career beginning in the 1960s.

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Simon Estes is an operatic bass-baritone of African-American descent who had a major international opera career beginning in the 1960s. He has sung at most of the world's major opera houses as well as in front of presidents, popes and internationally renowned figures and celebrities including Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Boris Yeltsin, Yasser Arafat, Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. Notably, he was part of the first generation of black opera singers to achieve widespread success and is viewed as part of a group of performers who were instrumental in helping to break down the barriers of racial prejudice in the opera world.

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United States
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
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living
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Born 1938 · age 88
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