Marian Anderson, noted contralto, sings "The Star Spangled Banner" at ... first African American to be invited to perform at the White House and then sang there again when Franklin and Eleanor ...

Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) had a voice that came along "once in a hundred years." When one of Anderson's teachers first heard her sing, the ...