Jenny lind singer biography sample

Long before Hollywood actresses such as Marilyn Monroe and Katharine Hepburn became iconic stars, popular female opera singers of the early to midth century were among the first American celebrities.

One of those early American stars was Jenny Lind, nicknamed the "Swedish Nightingale." Just as Monroe's plunging necklines and slinky dresses cast her image as a curvaceous s ideal, and Hepburn's pantsuits and structured shoulder pads cast her with self-confidence and athleticism, Lind's paper dolls showed how the world cast the singer.

Born in Sweden in , Lind had traveled across Europe singing soprano since the age of By the time Lind was 28, she was already set to retire from the operatic stage.

The audience for Lind's farewell performance included Queen Victoria, who presented the singer with a gem-encrusted nightingale. While she was the darling of Europe, in almost no one in the United States knew who Lind was.

By September , however, she was one of the most famous and celeb