found: Grove Music Online [Opera], accessed April 6, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Robinson, Faye; opera singer; born 02 November 1943 in Houston, Texas, United States; american soprano; studied at Texas Southern University and with Ellen Faull in New York, making her début there with the City Opera in 1972; sang and scored a great success in Washington Civic Opera (1973), Opera South in Jackson (1974), and Adina (1975); sang at Buenos Aires (1980), Frankfurt, Germany (1981), Bordeaux (1982), and Amsterdam (1991); made her Paris Opéra début in 1982)