White Eagle
White Eagle auditioned for the San Francisco Opera in 1985 and was accepted into that year's Merola Opera Program. Over the years we kept in touch. I recently learned that he had been inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame Program and through that publicity I learned a number of things I did not know. I want to share this with you. "White Eagle, a member of the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, was determined at an yearly age that he wanted an opera singer. At the age of five, this minister's son gave his first public performance in his father's church. In 1971, he made his professional debut as a soloist at one of the nation's largest churches (Crystal Cathedral) and two years later began working with the vocal group Re-Generation. Over the next eight years White Eagle performed more than 4,000 concerts to some five million people in the U.S. and Canada. "In 1985 White Eagle graduated from the Merola Opera Program at the San Francisco O...
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