Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge professionally known as Amanda Aldridge, a British opera singer and teacher who composed love songs, suites, sambas, and light orchestras passed away on 9 March 1956.
After Amanda’s death, her cause of death is a topic of interest among fans. In this post you will get all the information related to her death and about her life.
What is Amanda Aldridge’s Cause of Death?
Amanda Aldridge was born on 10 March 1866 and passed away on 9 March 1956 at the age of 89 years. She died in London on March 9, 1956, a day before her 90th birthday, after a short illness.
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How Did Amanda Aldridge Get Fame?
Ira Frederick Aldridge was an African-American actor and Amanda Brandt was his second wife. Amanda Aldridge was born on March 10, 1866, in Upper Norwood, London. She was their third child. Rachael and Luranah were her sisters, and Ira Daniel and Ira Frederick were her brothers.
Aldridge learned singing at the Royal College of Music in London from Jenny Lind and George Henschel. He also learned harmony and counterpoint from Frederick Bridge and Francis Edward Gladstone. She worked as a concert singer, piano accompanist and voice coach after she finished school.
She stopped performing in concerts because of an issue with her throat. She then began teaching and released thirty songs in a romantic parlor style between 1907 and 1925, along with instrumental music in other styles. Children from highly active Black middle-class families in London were among her students.
These included Amy Barbour-James, daughter of John Barbour-James, Frank Alcindor, son of Dr. John Alcindor, and Alice Evans, sister of composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. African American actors Roland Hayes, Lawrence Benjamin Brown, Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson were among her famous students, as well as British-Bermudian actor Earl Cameron.
Aldridge was in the West End in 1930 when Robeson played Othello and she gave Robeson the gold earrings that her father, Ira Aldridge, had worn as Othello. Aldridge also helped singer Ida Shepley become a stage actress by taking her under her wing.
In 1921, W. E. B. Du Bois invited Amanda to attend the second Pan-African Congress, but Amanda turned him down with a note that said, “As you know, my sister is very helpless. I can only leave for a short time at a time.”
When Aldridge was 88 years old, she made her first TV appearance on the British show Music For You. Muriel Smith sang “Little Southern Love Song” by Montague Ring.
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