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American soprano, Grammy winner, and former Miss Hollywood.
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Angel Joy Blue (born May 3, 1984) is an American soprano. She won the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for the Metropolitan Opera production of Porgy and Bess at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. Her voice has been recognized for its shining and agile upper register, "smoky" middle register, beautiful timbre, and ability to switch from a classical to a contemporary sound. She has performed internationally and won numerous awards including a Grammy Award, Operalia and Miss Hollywood. According to family lore, when she was born her father, Sylvester, predicted that she would be "the next Leontyne Price".
Quick Facts
- Character name
- Angel Joy Blue
- Affiliation
- Metropolitan Opera
- Teatro alla Scala
- Royal Opera House
- Vienna State Opera
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- Key trait
- Shining and agile upper register
- smoky middle register
- beautiful timbre
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Lore & Background
Blue earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Redlands in 2005, and a Master of Music degree in Opera Performance from UCLA in 2007. She is an alumna of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, where she studied voice and classical piano. She was a member of the Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program at Los Angeles Opera from 2007 to 2009. Blue was a member of Artistas de la Academia del Palau de les Arts from 2009 to 2010, under Maestros Alberto Zedda, Lorin Maazel, and Zubin Mehta. Blue is a former model and beauty queen. She was the first African-American to hold the title of Miss Apple Valley. She was crowned Miss Hollywood in 2005, and she was 1st runner-up at the Miss California contest that same year. Blue was the 1st runner-up at Miss California in 2006 and 1st runner-up at Miss Nevada USA in 2007.
Reader's Guide
Blue's awards include the Richard Tucker Award, 2022; the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for the Metropolitan Opera production of Porgy and Bess in the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards; the Eva and Marc Stern Artist Award, 2021; the Beverly Sills Award, Metropolitan Opera, 2020. In 2009, Blue was a finalist in Operalia, receiving first place in the zarzuela competition, and second place in the opera competition. She has also received awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion's Emerging Young Entertainers Award, and the Redlands Bowl Competition. Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Achievement Award January 21, 2014, given by Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. In 2010 Blue was a featured soloist on the Madrileños por Haití concert with the Orquesta Clásica de España in Madrid, Spain. The concert was dedicated to raising funds for housing projects for Haitians who have relocated to the Dominican Republic. In March 2014 Blue took part in the annual AIDS Gala in Düsseldorf, Germany. The gala raised €142,000 to help those affected by AIDS and HIV in both Germany and South Africa.
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