Word: parise
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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At an early age, she decided, to the shock of her parents, that she wanted to be a star pop singer. She began cultivating a trembling, soulful sound that eventually won her jobs in Paris nightclubs and made her a prominent voice on the Harvard campus, starring in musicals, soloing...
Toomer's career at Harvard, and beyond, took off soon after her debut at "The Errols." One night after a performance, Toomer met a former Harvard graduate who told her that nightclubs in Paris were interested in singers like herself.
Sensing the time was right to launch her singing career, Toomer seized the moment and jetted to Paris over Spring Break to try her luck at the nightclubs. She auditioned at a different club each night and lined up "tentative jobs" with those she impressed.
Hagenbuch's friend went alone and died in Paris, asphyxiated by fumes from her stove. "I wonder if I had gone, if I would have remembered to open the window," Hagenbuch says.
London: William Mader Paris: Thomas A. Sancton, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Jay Branegan Bonn: James O. Jackson Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels, Andrew...