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Robert McFerrin baritone sings Cortigiani (Excerpt)

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Uploaded by on Aug 1, 2008

Recorded late 1950s
Robert McFerrin, baritone

Robert McFerrin Sr. (March 19, 1921 -- 24 November 2006) was an American opera singer who was the first African American male to sing at the New York Metropolitan Opera. He is also the father of the Grammy Award-winning conductor-vocalist Bobby McFerrin.

One of the first great male standard-bearers!

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  • holy crap! what a voice o_o

    i wish there were more recordings of him on youtube

  • Robert McFerrin was an exceptional talent in an era that also had Leonard Warren, Robert Merrill, Robert Weede and a young Cornell MacNeil. I am so pleased to see this video to help keep the memory of real singing alive! And to think today that Placido Domingo is singing Rigoletto.....vergonia

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  • So that's what my voice called...

  • Please remove the Ninon Vallin video I accidentally posted as a video response.

  • Outstanding.

    

  • Robert McFerrin was a great singer and a truly exceptional artist. In a more just world with talent like this he should have been ultra famous. What a waste of a great American talent.Racism limited his chances. Who can say this man was not one of the most incredible voices of his day?

  • @WOOFOWOOF scary

  • RM was a really exciting voice; almost tenorial.

  • @WOOFOWOOF Like a frog.

  • his voice is so warm

  • I was just looking at his entry in wiki and it is mentioned that he was considered "underrecorded." He didn't make many recordings, his career at the Met was relatively short. According to Wiki, he didn't believe he had much job security.

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