11.   She said she used the gunfighter image of the debut CD to separate herself from other aspiring female singers.

12.   She says she wrote it as much for aspiring singers as for opera lovers.

13.   The festival has also been tainted by allegations that aspiring singers paid bribes to appear.

14.   The Washington Opera has been one of the few major companies without a program devoted to aspiring singers and Domingo has long wanted to start one.

15.   Presley-Jackson is an aspiring singer and has two children from her previous marriage to musician Danny Keough.