11.   Skunk Anansie, an English band with a black female singer, is esteemed in Europe, but so far has not gained many admirers in the United States.

12.   So far, black singers and rappers, white folk singers and calypso artists have recorded music.

13.   Smith, her manager, said he saw her at Honey Jam, a small club in Toronto that mostly features black singers.

14.   The elder McFerrin was the first black singer to sign a Metropolitan Opera contract.

15.   The importance of religion in establishing and supporting black singers can hardly be underplayed.

16.   The standing chorus at the Lyric has five black singers, and others who had worked with the chorus were hired again.

17.   There was this perception that I was a black singer first.

18.   There were black singers, black dancers, black music, black children, black preachers, a veritable army of black speakers.

19.   Thomson daringly cast the work entirely with black singers recruited in Harlem.

20.   Under terms set by the composer and subsequently his estate, the opera can only be performed by black singers.