Thanks again for all of your searches. It appears to me that many of these lady opera singers look very much alike. Maybe I am missing something,but I don't think that we have found her yet.

Della Reese.... before she shot off Eddie Murphys toe.

I say if we cant find out who she is....we start elimanating who she aint. I'll go first!!!

She ain't Pamela Anderson...

PS...she sorta does look like Della Reese.

http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/christensen-donna-marie-christian-1945

Is it this person?

Thanks Annajohn,
I wouldn't bet against the person you have found,but I can't say for certain that she is the identically matched person. There are so many people that have similar facial features that it is difficult for me to make an exact match. If the first photo I posted is located and has a name attached to it, then I suspect we will discover, with a greater degree of certainty, who she is.
Patre

Mrs. TJ says she has seen this person on CNN before and almost positive she is a singer.

That is my hunch too,TJ...

This woman is in a picture that was painted and hanging in McAllister's deli near where I live.
I wondered the same thing.


And she's not my mother.

I (mentally) spent 3 hours searching the web.
Came up empty I'm afraid.

I raised a question on Yahoo Answers.

Just the usual shitty replies from the wankers who inhabite the site.

"Sorry dont know"

"I think it's a singer"

"I'm a fake Michael Jackson fan"

etc

sorry Pat. it's doing my fuckin ghead in !!!

do us a cheesy quaver and pop down and find out who it is PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE !!!!!!

i still say it's an elderly ella fitz gerald
but why do you need to find out Patre?

Had a look at the embedded file info.

The following MAY be a clue...


"DM_head shot"

So. D M possible initials ?

Thanks, gran, for all of your diligent searching.Looks like we have had a similar experience.I also used the clues you referred to: DM,image title etc. So far no break in the case..

Splodge,It could the older Ella Fitzgerald,but I still can't be certain. I smudge painted the image in B&W and want to put it in my web gallery,so I am trying to contact the photographer to request permission to post the painting.But if it can't be found,I have learned a good lesson. On potentially sensitive images, I need to check the sources, when I first download the image.

Kittie,as I said,I'm not placing any bets in Vegas that its your mom..Who is,at best, a most and very incredible longshot ..

Well, if it does say DM_headshot, then chances are it is the woman I found, Donna Marie Christian, and she may very well have been on CNN several times, not as a singer, but as a politician.

Could very well be her,Annajon..

OK I give up. The wife says she thinks she has been on Oprah.
Maybe a writer.