- Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bean Bryant (born) is an American All-Star shooting guard in the National Basketball Association (NBA) who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. Bryant is the only son of former Philadelphia 76ers player and former Los Angeles Sparks head coach Joe "Jellybean" Bryant. Bryant rose to national prominence in 1996 when he became the first guard in league history to be drafted out of high school.
- Nellie Melba
Dame Nellie Melba, GBE (19 May 1861 - 23 February 1931), born Helen Porter Mitchell, was an Australian opera soprano, the first Australian to achieve international recognition in the form.
- Francesca Cuzzoni
Francesca Cuzzoni (1700 - 1770) was an Italian soprano. In her youth, she studied with Francesco Lanzi. Cuzzoni was known as a prima donna: on occasion she physically attacked rivals on the stage. This could sometimes get her into trouble. When she once refused to sing an aria from Handel's "Ottone", despite the fact that Handel was the conductor and accompanist, Handel, as demanding as her, …
- Giulia Grisi
Giulia Grisi, was an Italian opera singer. Born in Milan, she was the daughter of one of Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian officers. She came from a musically gifted family, her maternal aunt Giuseppina Grassini (1773–1850) being a favourite opera-singer both on the continent and in London; her mother had also been a singer, and her elder sister Guiditta and her cousin Carlotta were both exceedingly talented.
- Lilli Lehmann
Lilli Lehmann was a German operatic soprano. Her mother Maria Theresia Löw (1809 - 1885) was Jewish. Her first lessons were from her mother who was a prima donna under Spohr at Cassel. After singing small parts on the stage she made her debut in 1870 in Berlin as a light soprano in Meyerbeer's "Das Feldlager in Schlesien" in 1870 and became so successful that she was appointed Imperial chamber singer in 1876. She sang in the first Bayreuth Festival, in 1876, …
- Lillian Nordica
Lillian Nordica (1857-1914), American operatic soprano, nee Norton, was born in a small farmhouse built by her grandfather on a hill just outside Farmington, Maine. The Nordica pseudonym was bestowed by an Italian "maestro" at the beginning of her operatic career. He convinced her that Europeans would not tolerate an American name on the stage.
- Arthur Benjamin
Arthur Leslie Benjamin (September 18, 1893, Sydney - April 10, 1960, London) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of "Jamaican Rhumba", composed in 1938.
- Margaret Burke Sheridan
Margaret Burke-Sheridan (1889-1958) was an Irish opera singer. Born in Castlebar, Ireland, she was known as "Maggie from Mayo" and is regarded as Ireland's first prima donna. She died in relative obscurity in 1958.
- Margherita Durastanti
Margherita Durastanti was an Italian singer of the 18th century. Vocally, she is best described as a soprano, though later in her career her tessitura descended to that of a mezzo-soprano. She is particularly famous for her association with the composer George Frideric Handel: indeed she enjoyed a longer personal association with the composer than any other musician.
- Anna Renzi
Anna Renzi (c.1620-after 1660) was a leading Italian opera singer of the mid-17th century, renowned for her acting ability as well as her voice. She has been described as the first prima donna. She sang in Rome and Venice, where she appeared in the role of Ottavia in the premiere of Monteverdi's "L'incoronazione di Poppea". She was the subject of "Le glorie della signora Anna Renzi" (1644), a collection of encomiums edited by Giulio Strozzi, …
- Angelica Catalani
Angelica Catalani (1780 - 12 June 1849) was an Italian opera singer, the daughter of a tradesman. At Sinigaglia, she was educated at the convent of Santa Lucia at Gubbio, where her soprano voice soon became famous. In 1795 she made her debut on the stage at Venice. For nearly thirty years she sang at all the great houses, receiving very large fees; her first appearance in London being at the Kings theatre in 1806.
- Francis Leon
Francis Leon was a blackface minstrel performer best known for his work as a female impersonator. He was largely responsible for making the prima donna a fixture of blackface minstrelsy. Leon entered minstrelsy in 1858. Only 14 at the time, he quickly rose to fame by specializing in portraying female prima donna characters, mulatto coquettes in yellow makeup and elaborate costumes. Leon's 300 dresses (which he refused to call "costumes") were a key piece of his act, …
- Elisabeth Olin
Elisabeth Olin, "née Lillström", (1740-1828) was one of the first professional female singers in Sweden, the first Swedish Opera- prima donna, a court-singer, an actress, and composer. Together with Jeanette Fredrique Löf, she was the most succesfull Swedish actress in the 18th century. Her father, Petter Lillström, was a court musician, an organist, and played in the theatre orchestra in Bollhuset, …
- Anna Maria Strada
Anna Maria Strada was an Italian soprano of the 18th century. She is best remembered for her association with the composer George Frideric Handel, whose operas Strada sang in. After an initial career in Italy that included performances at Venice — in one of Vivaldi's operas — Milan, and Livorno, …
- Rob Cryston
Rob Cryston (born January 19, 1971, also known as Robbie Roberts, Roby Cryston, Rod Cryston) is an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay pornographic movies throughout the 1990s. In his early work, he was credited as "Robbie Roberts". He is best known for changing his look and style during his career: from smooth, lean, playful, bottom twink to hairy, muscular, top daddy.
- Myrtle Stedman
Myrtle Stedman (1891-January 8, 1938) was a character actress in motion pictures beginning in silent films in 1913. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and educated at a private finishing school there. Miss Stedman performed in light opera and musical comedies there. Her voice was cultivated in France. Her tutor was Marchesi, who was known as one of the finest instructors of voice culture in his country.
- Semiha Berksoy
Semiha Berksoy was one of the first Turkish opera singers, the prima donna of the Turkish opera, a painter, and an internationally acclaimed artist. She was born in Çengelköy, Istanbul, Turkey in 1910. She studied painting at the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts. She studied singing at the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory.
- Kevin Finn
Member of The New Seekers from 1976-1978
- Sally Ann Triplett
- Ray Kassar
Raymond E. Kassar (born January 2, 1928) was president, and later CEO, of Atari from 1978 to 1983. He had previously been vice-president of Burlington Industries, a textile company. Ray Kassar was hired in February 1978 as president of Atari's consumer division by Warner Communications, who at the time owned Atari. By this time, rifts had begun to develop between the original Atari staff (most of whom had engineering backgrounds) and the new hires brought in by Warner (who, …
- Git Gay
Birgit Carp, better known by her screen name Git Gay, was a Swedish revue director, actress and singer. As of 1960, she became known as the leading Swedish "Prima donna" of light entertainment. Git Gay was born Birgit Agda Holmberg in 1921 at Karlshamn, Sweden. Her parents wanted her to become a concerto pianist and sent her to the Music Conservatory in Malmö.
- Henry Sutherland Edwards
Henry Sutherland Edwards (1828-1906) was an English journalist. He was born in London, and educated in London and France. He was correspondent of "The Times" at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia, in the camp of the insurgents at Warsaw (1862-63), and at German army headquarters during the Franco-Prussian War.
- Clara Clairbert
Clara Pierre Impens (21 February 1899-16 August1970) was a Belgian soprano who sang under the stage-name Clara Clairbert. Born in Saint Gilles, Clara began studying music in Anderlecht at the age of seven. During the First World War her father, a civil servant, followed the Belgian government into exile, settling his family in Le Havre.
- Georgina Stirling
Georgina Ann Stirling (April 3 1866 - April 23 1935) was a Canadian opera singer, known by her stage name Marie Toulinquet. Born in Twillingate, Newfoundland, she became a world-renowned Prima donna soprano who played in opera houses throughout Europe and United States. She was Newfoundland's first opera singer and became known as "The Nightingale of the North." Stirling, daughter of Ann (Peyton) and William Stirling, …
- Elizabeth Fretwell
Elizabeth Drina Fretwell O.B.E. (13 August 1920 - 5 June 2006) was an Australian soprano. She was the prima donna at London's Sadler's Wells Opera (English National Opera) through much of the 1950s and 1960s.
- Moishe Finkel
Moishe Finkel (ca. 1850-June 7, 1904) (also known as Morris or Maurice Finkel) was a prominent figure in the early years of Yiddish theater. He was business partner first of Abraham Goldfaden and later of Sigmund Mogulesko (the greatest Yiddish star of the generation) and, for a time, was married to prima donna Annetta Schwartz.
- Céline Scheen
Céline Scheen was born in Verviers, Belgium in 1976. She began her vocal studies with Annie Frantz. In 1996, she entered the Royal Academy of Mons and obtained a First Prize in the class of Marcel Vanaud. She then received a degree in song and methodology of song at the Royal Academy of Brussels. In 1998, she obtained the Nany Philippart's grant with Chapelle musicale Reine Élisabeth. For two years, she worked in the class of Vera Rosza at the Guildhall School of Music in London, …
- Maria Sokil
Maria Sokil (Rudnytsky) (1902-1999) was a famous Ukrainian opera singer. Sokil was born in the village of Zherebets' (now Kirov) in the Zaporizhia Oblast on October 19, 1902. She studied at the conservatory in Dnipropetrovsk from 1920 to 1925. She made her opera debut in Kharkiv in 1927 in the role of Marguerite in Gounod's opera "Faust" and became the prima donna lyric soprano of that opera theater.
- Lisa Roma
Lisa Roma (born in 1893) was an American soprano who toured in the U.S. with composer Maurice Ravel in 1928. She was chair of grand opera in the College of Music at the University of Southern California beginning in 1930. She also was prima donna in the Berlin State Opera. Roma, who lived in Los Angeles, was one of the first people in the entertainment industry there to undergo a rhinoplasty, or a "nose job." According to the "Los Angeles Examiner" (May 5, 1930), …
- Darren Kelly
Darren Kelly (born June 30, 1979 in Derry, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish footballer currently playing in the League of Ireland with Derry City F.C.
- Margaretta Schwartz
Margeretta Schwartz was one of the first distinguished female performers in Yiddish theater. She and her sister Annetta shared "prima donna" duties in Abraham Goldfaden's troupe in Romania beginning in 1877. Jacob Adler described the sisters as "absolutely respectable" women with classical training as singers. He also writes that when they performed in Odessa, Ukraine in the late 1870s, they had Paris dresses of a quality that had never been seen in that city.
- Ann Cargill
Ann Cargill (born Ann Brown) (1760 - March 4, 1784) was a British opera diva and celebrated beauty whose life and death were a sensation in London at the close of the 18th century. She was born to a London coal merchant and was a child star, making her debut in November of 1771 at the age of eleven in Covent Garden Theatre singing the role of Titania in George Colman's "The Fairy Prince" (music by Thomas Arne).
- Emilie Högquist
Emilie Högquist was a Swedish actress and the mistress of Oscar I of Sweden. She was the daughter of Anders Högquist and Anna Beata Hedvall. Her brother Jean was a famous Swedish actor. Emilie Högqvist was accepted as a student at the Royal Theatre (Sw. Kungliga teatern) in Stockholm, making her debut in 1828 and being employed there from 1831. She was the most celebrated Swedish primadonna of her time, called the Swedish Aspasia; no other actress is Sweden before her, …
- Prima Donna
- Prima Donna
- Katie Bearden
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- April
Verdi. Roses. Victorian architecture. Italian cooking.
- Heidi Cornelio
You'd think I'm naive but I'm not. Honestly, There just might be a whole lot of things in this world that I know better than you do. So mad and so sad that even I scare myself. I know I can turn your world upside down if I wanted to, that is...if you're worth my time.
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- Abby
Devoted to my family & friends. Traveling & experiencing new cultures. Most importantly spending time with loved ones.