What is Adele Addison?
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} [[File:Adele Addison.jpg|thumb|Addison in April 1955 (photography by [[Carl Van Vechten]])]] '''Adele Addison''' (born July 24, 1925) is an [[Americans|American]] [[soprano]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://brbl-archive.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/cvvpw/gallery/addison.html|title=Adele Addison|work=Extravagant Crowd|publisher=[[Yale University]]|access-date=April 7, 2019}}</ref> She was a figure in the [[classical music]] world during the 1950s and 1960s. She was an [[opera singer]]. However, she spent most of her career performing in [[Concert|recital and concert]]. A lot of her singing is from the [[Baroque]] period. She is well known for performing the singing voice of Bess (played by [[Dorothy Dandridge]]) in the movie ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' (1959). Addison was born in [[New York City]]. She grew up in [[Springfield, Massachusetts|Springfield]], [[Massachusetts]]. She has had [[type 2 diabetes]] since [[childhood]]. In 1958, she married Norman Berger, a [[research]] [[scientist]] and professor at [[New York University]]. Berger died in 2005, after a 47-year [[marriage]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/classified/paid-notice-deaths-berger-norman.html|title=Paid Notice: Deaths Berger, Norman|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 14, 2005|access-date=April 7, 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{IMDb name|0011694}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Addison, Adele}} [[Category:1925 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:African-American singers]] [[Category:American opera singers]] [[Category:People from Springfield, Massachusetts]] [[Category:Singers from Massachusetts]] [[Category:Singers from New York City]] [[Category:American sopranos]] {{US-bio-stub}}