1. Angel Joy Blue was born on May 3,1984 and is an American soprano.
23 Facts About Angel Blue
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Angel Blue's 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.
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Angel Blue has performed internationally and won numerous awards including a Grammy Award, Operalia and Miss Hollywood.
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Angel Blue is an alumna of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, where she studied voice and classical piano.
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Angel Blue was a member of the Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program at Los Angeles Opera from 2007 to 2009.
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Angel 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.
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Angel Blue was the first African-American to hold the title of Miss Apple Valley, California.
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Angel Blue was crowned Miss Hollywood in 2005, and she was 2nd runner up at the Miss California contest that same year.
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Angel Blue was the 1st runner up to both Miss California in 2006 and Miss Nevada in 2007.
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Angel Blue began touring with Placido Domingo in 2011 opening the Kaufmann Center in Kansas City, Missouri; the Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman, and concerts in Beijing, China, as well as Zagreb, Croatia.
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Angel Blue was a finalist in Operalia 2009, receiving 1st place in the Zarzuela competition, and 2nd place in the Opera competition.
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In July 2010, Angel Blue was honored to be a part of the 17th Annual Verbier Festival in Switzerland, where she sang in an "Operalia Tribute" Concert sponsored by Rolex.
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Angel Blue was the only soloist invited to sing for the American Friends of the Israeli Philharmonic in a Tribute Concert to honor the film composer Hans Zimmer.
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Angel Blue was featured on Melvyn Bragg's documentary series, the South Bank Show, which aired on Sky Arts on June 19,2014.
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Angel Blue has been a favorite in magazines such as The Times, TimeOut, The Daily Telegraph, and on BBC Radio 3's InTune with Sean Rafferty.
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Angel Blue was the guest judge for the BBC Choir Competition of the Year final in December 2014.
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Angel Blue made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2017 as Mimi in La boheme.
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Angel Blue was supposed to perform Knoxville: Summer of 1915 by Samuel Barber and "This Is Not a Small Voice" by Valerie Coleman as part of BBC Proms on 8 September 2022, but the performance was cancelled due to the death of Elizabeth II.
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Angel Blue performed two spirituals with the pianist Stephen Hough, and the aria Al pensar en el dueno de mis amores from the operetta Las hijas del Zebedeo, by Ruperto Chapi, as well as Rule Britannia by Thomas Arne.
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In 2009, Angel Blue was a finalist in Operalia, receiving first place in the zarzuela competition, and second place in the opera competition.
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Angel Blue has received awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion's Emerging Young Entertainers Award, and the Redlands Bowl Competition.
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In 2010 Angel Blue was a featured soloist on the Madrilenos por Haiti concert with the Orquesta Clasica de Espana in Madrid, Spain.
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In March 2014 Angel Blue took part in the annual AIDS Gala in Dusseldorf, Germany.