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Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.

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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
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Opera Singer
Indiana
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