David Wilson-Johnson [SEP] voice type
David Wilson-Johnson
David Wilson-Johnson (born in Northampton on 16 November 1950) is a British operatic and concert baritone.
Career.
David Wilson-Johnson was educated at Wellingborough School, and studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. As a singer he studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he won the Dove Prize for most distinguished student.
In 1976, Wilson-Johnson made his operatic debut in Henze's ""We Come to the River
as Queen Isabel Johnson) and a West Indian woman in a comedy routine titled "Christopher Columbus", appearing on his 1967 album "Cowboys and Colored People". Wilson worked at developing his own version of the voice, imagining a black Southern woman living in a rural area. He performed embryonic Geraldine-type routines at stand-up comedy clubs, but not wearing women's clothing, and not with the name Geraldine.
Wilson said he got the name Geraldine from a friend he had when he was eight or