Isola Jones [SEP] voice type
Isola Jones
Isola Jones (born December 27, 1949) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer. She sang at the Metropolitan Opera for 16 seasons and has performed with many opera companies throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Biography.
Jones was born in Chicago, Illinois. She is part African American, Native American (Cherokee) and also has European ancestry. She received her undergraduate degree at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Among her musical influences, she credits Leontyne Price.
After college, she
published an extract. That was my first time in print. The magazine was influential, though, like most magazines of the kind, it was short lived... The extract in "X" attracted interest from a number of publishers. Fabers, among other publishers, wrote to me. T. S. Eliot was working at the firm then.”
- Isola di Rifiuti 
- "Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography", Antoinette Quinn (author), Gill & Macmillan Ltd; 2nd Revised edition (Sep 2003)