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I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.

Renee Fleming

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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
Musician
Opera Singer
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Renee Fleming
Singing
Joy
Humanity
Imagine
Beauty
Cathartic
History
Combined
Cannot
Satisfying
Every
Calling

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