#Repost @wonderwombman ・・・ You know Coretta Scott King for her civil rights activism and being a wif
#Repost @wonderwombman ・・・ You know Coretta Scott King for her civil rights activism and being a wife to Martin Luther King Jr., however, few know that in her early life, Coretta was a well-known singer and violin player. Another interesting twist is that the young soprano won a fellowship to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, the city where she met future husband King, who was a doctoral candidate at Boston University’s School of Theology. According to Coretta, she inherited her musical talents from her mother, who sang in the church because “there was no place else to sing for her when I was growing up.” Life in segregated Alabama was tough but it was here she had her early music education, singing solos in the church as well in school. “I became the star pupil that the teacher showed off with when the dean supervisor came around.” Upon hearing classical music for the first time, she purposed to study music because she liked it and also because of a teacher she encountered. In an interview conducted in Chicago in 2004, Coretta explained more. “In high school, I had a teacher who influenced me greatly, Miss Olive J. Williams, and she was versatile in music, and I wanted to be like her. She exposed me to black performers, which I didn’t know about at the time: Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson, Roland Hayes and Dorothy Maynor and others.” “So I got my foundation and my beginning there, and then, at Antioch, I built on that with another teacher named Walter Anderson. He was the one who eventually encouraged me to apply when I graduated from Antioch to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston,” she added. For Coretta, music was her first love and it was also through music that she met her second love and future husband, King. They married in June 1953, after announcing their engagement in the Atlanta Daily World on Valentine’s Day of the same year. A move to Montgomery, Alabama was the next step after Coretta finished her degree in voice and piano. Whiles King was called to pastor the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, she continued to perform. (SWIPE LEFT) (CLICK PICS) #Follow @wonderwombman @wonderwombman2 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb2pPysrhHL/?utm_medium=tumblr -- source link
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