Denyce Graves
Denyce Graves ( born March 7, 1964 in Washington, DC) is an American mezzo-soprano.
After she had made a positive impression in music lessons, she got a musical education at the Duke Ellington School. As a 14 -year-old, she lived for three months as Austausschülerin in Munich.
In 1992, she was the Carmen on the Ravinia Festival under the direction of James Levine, a role that they took over more often. So in 1995 in her first engagement at the Met
For Bill Clinton, she sang at the White House, George W. Bush inauguration. On September 24, 2001, she sang in the Washington National Cathedral The Lord's Prayer and America The Beautiful in devotion to the victims of September 11.