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Title: Transgender musician makes waves with voice, violin
Post by: Shana A on May 23, 2011, 08:24:41 AM
Post by: Shana A on May 23, 2011, 08:24:41 AM
Transgender musician makes waves with voice, violin
Tona Brown diversifies classical scene in Baltimore, beyond
May 22, 2011|By Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-05-22/features/bs-ae-tona-brown-20110521_1_transgender-woman-tona-brown-violin (http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-05-22/features/bs-ae-tona-brown-20110521_1_transgender-woman-tona-brown-violin)
On a YouTube video, Tona Brown is first seen playing some Bach on the violin. Then she breaks into song, delivering "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" in a full-throated mezzo-soprano voice.
That Rodgers and Hammerstein classic makes a particularly fitting anthem for Brown, who has faced her share of hurdles. None of them, it seems, have fazed this transgender musician who moved to Baltimore about a year ago.
"You can't tell me I can't do something," Brown says with a broad smile, interviewed on a warm afternoon in the rowhouse she shares with a roommate half a block from Lake Montebello.
Tona Brown diversifies classical scene in Baltimore, beyond
May 22, 2011|By Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-05-22/features/bs-ae-tona-brown-20110521_1_transgender-woman-tona-brown-violin (http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-05-22/features/bs-ae-tona-brown-20110521_1_transgender-woman-tona-brown-violin)
On a YouTube video, Tona Brown is first seen playing some Bach on the violin. Then she breaks into song, delivering "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" in a full-throated mezzo-soprano voice.
That Rodgers and Hammerstein classic makes a particularly fitting anthem for Brown, who has faced her share of hurdles. None of them, it seems, have fazed this transgender musician who moved to Baltimore about a year ago.
"You can't tell me I can't do something," Brown says with a broad smile, interviewed on a warm afternoon in the rowhouse she shares with a roommate half a block from Lake Montebello.