In the early nineteen thirties, a music producer,John Hammond, heard Billie Holiday sing in a nightclub.

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However,these musicians often sing in secret and their music is not widely known.

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But she continues to sing in concert and teaches students around the world.

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This meant Holiday no longer could sing in nightclubs and jazz clubs.

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The famous Italian orchestra conductor Arturo Toscanini heard her sing in Austria.

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It was in church where Marian first began to sing in public.

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In Paris,Eartha left the dance company to sing in a nightclub.

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Marian Anderson was to sing in Washington, D.C. at Constitution Hall.

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" ...when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last!

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In the nineteen sixties, she began to sing more modern songs such as those written by the Beatles and Burt Bacharach.

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These artists fear that they will get in trouble with the government if they sing about political issues.

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More than any other union, they used music in their campaigns, urging members to "sing and fight."

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She decided to find three MCs in her neighborhood in Englewood,New Jersey, and have them sing together.

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They may sing the songs in the country and western style the way Hank wrote them.

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With Mrs. Roosevelt's help, Anderson was able to sing for an even bigger crowd in Washington.

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He knew that black singers in America were not permitted to sing with white opera groups.

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The fathers,played by William Larsen and Hugh Thomas, sing about this in "Never Say No."

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In 1955, Marian Anderson was asked to sing with the New York Metropolitan Opera company.

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The actors in the Broadway version of the musical sing a song called "Happiness."

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She felt defeated and did not sing again in public for many months.

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They sing about a lost love and forgotten memories in "Sometimes in Winter."

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Some musicians do sing about political and social issues in suppressed societies.

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Here the young men sing "When You Look Me in the Eyes,"

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They sing about a snowstorm in a New England town.

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The children sing traditional Cherokee songs in the Cherokee language.

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