Margaret Tynes

Margaret Tynes by Carl Van Vechten, 1959,  Margaret Tynes had a phenomenal international career as a singer in opera, jazz and theater for over fifty years. A graduate of North Carolina A&T State University (BA 1939) and Columbia University (MA 1944), she starred as Harry Belafonte’s leading lady off-Broadway in a show he produced called Sing Man, Sing! She also recorded a jazz suite called A Drum is a Woman with Duke Ellington and made several appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Source: lipstickalley | Carl Van Vechten, photographer |