Margaret Tynes by Carl Van Vechten. She had a phenomenal international career as a singer in opera, jazz and theater for over fifty years. A graduate of North Carolina A&T State University (BA 1939) and Columbia University (MA 1944), she starred as Harry Belafonte’s leading lady off-Broadway in a show he produced called Sing Man, Sing! She also recorded a jazz suite called A Drum is a Woman with Duke Ellington and made several appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. In 1961, she gained international acclaim as Salomé at the Spoleto Festival of the Two Worlds in Italy, where she lived for more than forty years.
My aunt Margaret Tynes photographed by Carl Van Vechten on September 29, 1959. She had a phenomenal international career...
Wow…this photo was taken...my mom’s birthday. 9/29/1959
My aunt Margaret Tynes photographed by Carl Van Vechten on September 29, 1959. She had a phenomenal international career...