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STERLING, ANTOINETTE (d. 1904)

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STERLING, ANTOINETTE (d. 1904) , Anglo-See also:American vocalist, was See also:born at Sterlingville, New See also:York See also:state. She studied with Mme Marchesi, with Mme Viardot See also:Garcia and with See also:Manuel Garcia, and after singing for two years in See also:America came in 1873 to See also:England, where she made her first See also:appearance at Covent See also:Garden under See also:Sir See also:Julius See also:Benedict and rapidly became a popular favourite among the contraltos of the See also:day. She gained her greatest successes as a ballad-See also:singer, especially in such songs as " Caller Herrin'," " The Three Fishers " and " The Lost Chord." She was a woman of deep religious feeling and many enthusiasms, and her name was constantly associated with philanthropic enterprise. She died on the loth of See also:January 1904. In 1875 she had married Mr See also:John Mackinlay, and her See also:life was written by her son, Mr Sterling Mackinlay, in 1906.

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