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Angeline Butler: A Biography of the Woman, the Performing Artist, a Living Legend of the Sixties. \t<\/p>\n

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 <\/em>The Irish Times once referred to her as A Bird in Paradise\u201d, her unconventional style, her<\/em> ethnic appearance, her incredible technique in both song and drama, as she performed in<\/em> the Coric Opera House and the Gaiety Theatre Noel Pearson and Elmer Bernstein\u2019s<\/em> productions of \u201cJesus Christ Superstar\u201d and a Cole Porter Review \u201cPlayin\u2019 Porter\u201d. <\/em>The <\/em>Sydney Morning Herald referred to her as a \u201cSinger who talks of Militantcy\u201d while<\/em> appearing in her supper club act at Chequers International and Leonard Feather (LA<\/em> Times 1979) speaks of \u201cher principal advantages are her powerful wide-ranging voice, the<\/em> warm emotionalism she exudes and her versatility.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/em>Ms. Butler was trained in Music at Fisk University (Nashville), The Juilliard School, and in<\/em> Drama at Columbia University, The Herbert Berghof School, The Gene Frankel Theatre,<\/em> The Renata Mannhardt Theatre Foundation, and by the renowned drama coach Alice <\/em>Spivak. <\/em>To date, she has performed in Canada, Australia, Ireland, France, Germany, the<\/em> Caribbean, and in America.<\/em><\/p>\n

She was born in the city of Columbia, South Carolina to Vivian Ayers and was given up for adoption at twelve days old to Rev. and Mrs. Isaac Bartley Butler of the rural community of Eastover. As time passed and Angeline grew up, the Butler\u2019s had five other daughters. They lived on a farm, they walked miles to school and they picked cotton, pulled fodder, hunted berries and fished in the streams.<\/p>\n

 <\/em>When a senior at the Hopkins High School, Angeline won and represented her state of South Carolina at the \u201cNational Shrine Talent and Beauty Contest\u201d in Philadelphia. This contest was the Black equivalent to Miss America. Little did Angeline know that this would be the beginning of a life of world travels, performance in entertainment, education, and social activism.<\/p>\n

 <\/em>Johnny Carson, of the NBC TV \u201cTonight Show\u201d was fascinated by the Angeline Butler, who was not only multi-talented, but who felt strongly about the position of her people in America and often demonstrated and went to jail to prove it. Johnny Carson documents Angeline at the Juilliard<\/p>\n

School studying and at break time going back to the South to join other Student Non-Violent Participants on protests and in Jail. NBC \u201cWhite Paper Series No. 2\u201d, a film by Bob Young and Michael Roemer has been clipped in \u201cEyes on the Prize\u201d(PBS), \u201cA Century of Power\u201d (KCET-TV2000), and museums all over the World on Angeline\u2019s participation.<\/p>\n

 <\/em>Jet magazine carried featured articles on the \u201cSit Inner to Show Biz\u201d in Truman Capote\u2019s and Harold Arlen\u2019s \u201cHouse of Flowers \u201c. David Halberstam\u2019s \u201cChildren\u201d says \u201cAngeline Butler, the strikingly beautiful young woman who had been one of the more important figures in the early sit\u00ad in days\u2026.had always thought of a career in show business. Had she arrived twenty year later, her friends thought, it might have been a different story. As it was, her career was harder than Johnny Carson had prophesied on the Tonight Show.\u201d<\/p>\n

Angeline Butler is Artist Par Excellence. She began on the \u201cBell Telephone Hour\u201d(NBC TV) with the Buster Davies Singers and moved quickly to folksinger on Columbia Records \u201cJust Arrived The Pilgrims\u201d, a group Tom Wilson produced around Angeline \u2018s talent as the \u201cBlack answer\u201d to \u201cPeter, Paul and Mary\u201d touring the college circuit. Angeline then ventured out in her own rite as a solo performer, making her debut with the Billy William\u2019s Review in Chicago. Chicago Tribune reporter Bentley Stegner wrote of her \u201cThis day Lena is leaning towards the Met,\u201d commenting on the beauty of her pure soprano voice.<\/p>\n

 <\/em>Among her credits is \u201cThe Cave\u201d with Ray Stevens (Vancouver), Puerto Rico Sheraton (Salon De Carnival), Johnny Carson on Tour (Westbury Fair, Detroit Civic, and Cleveland Auditorium), and Duke Ellington\u2019s Sacred Music Concerts (Los Angeles & San Diego), The Count Basie Orchestra at the Tropicana Blue Room in Las Vegas (1968). Angeline Butler \u201cImpressions\u201d, on Coburt-MGM Records is still being heard on the radio. \u201cPlayboy after Dark\u201d with Hugh Heffner repeats are on the Playboy channel. Angeline worked with Dick Cavett on ABC TV.<\/p>\n

 <\/em>Recent performances in Belgium\u2019s DEMUZE Jazz Cafe with Saxophonist Shawn Loescher and Lunaria Jazz Restaurant (Los Angeles), \u201cThe Art Hillary Songbook\u201d with Pianist-Composer Art Hillary, Percussionist Bonnie Janofsky, Saxophonist Louis Taylor, In Paris, France Stephanie Campeon\u2019s \u201cMOVIN PARTS\u2019: in Germany presented by Manfred Wolff, in America on MTV Video Music Awards \u201d Safe Sex Commercial\u201d and by Woodie King, Jr.  at the New Federal Theatre (NY) in the African Project \u201cThe Missing Face\u201d. The Village Voice (Jose Germosen) singled out her \u201cwinning\u201d performance in the African Queen, Nebe. \u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Butler produced cultural events for the California Afro-American Museum for the Smithsonian Exhibit, \u201cBeyond Category: The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington \u201c, \u201cThe Louie Belson Orchestra In Concert\u201d at USC Bovard Auditorium (1998) and a \u201cJazz Futures\u201d day featuring Composer-Arranger-Pianist Art Hillery,  Saxophonist Louis Taylor, Singer Barbara McNair, The B Sharp Quartet and others.<\/p>\n

Her outstanding \u201cAfrican-American  Contemporary Music Project\u201d at the University of Southern California (USC) The \u201cEllington Tree: Black American  Contribution to Contemporary Music,\u201d focused on Duke Ellington and other African American composers,  received a KCET-TV (Channel 21) Innovation Nomination  (1981) featured Amiri  Baraka,  Trombonist  Tom Macintosh, Guitarist Kenny Burrell and Singer Ernie Andrews , The Bill Berry Band, the H. B. Barnum Orchestra, Patti Bowen, Sarah Vaughn, Angeline Butler, Composer-Arranger Gerald Wilson,  Author Stanley Dance and was supported by the  Ellington family (Ruth and Mercer). \u2014This project led the way for academic acceptance of Black American Composition in Jazz in American Universities and lead to the creation of Jazz Studies Department at the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n

The City of Nashville recently honored and awarded Angeline Butler, as one of the Original Participants, Organizers of the Nashville Student Non-Violent Protest Movement, a founding member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, A Sit-Inner, A Freedom Rider of the 1960\u2019s. In Los Angeles, Angeline Butler, along with Supervisor Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, The Late Septima Poinsette Clark, Millicent Moore Hill, were honored in the founding of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Museum at the Crenshaw High School. Ms. Butler was a student advisor to the Late Martin Luther King, Jr. and an organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.<\/p>\n

 <\/em>Angeline sponsored the Civil Rights Legend the Late Septima Poinsette Clark of Charleston the last six years of her life and wrote a play \u201cVoices of a Sit-In\u201d in which Septima Clark spoke after each night at the Church In Ocean Park in Santa Monica (LA Times Coverage by Itebari Njeri \u201cShe Wrote the Book On Civil Rights\u201d 1987).<\/p>\n

 <\/em>On May 1, 2003, Angeline researched and sponsored a proposal adopted by the South Carolina House of Representatives, recognizing and extolling her father, Rev. Isaac Bartley Butler of Eastover, 97 years of age, for his countless good deeds and his fervent fight for improving the lives of so many people in the state. This was Angeline\u2019s way of saying \u201cThanks\u2019 dad\u201d.<\/p>\n

Angeline is back in New York, her artistic home, and is currently an Adjunct Professor of African American Studies at John Jay College of Criminal  Justice, since 2005, and has produced and written many projects that have been performed at the Gerald Lynch Theater and in other JJAY venues during her tenure.  She is as excited about New York as she was the first day she arrived on the Silver Meteor from South Carolina years ago with only seventy-five dollars in her pocket. Angeline says \u201cI\u2019ve got some God given talents and I feel as strongly about them as I do my singing\u201d and she continues to give them. First, I love talking to people. I love telling people stories, sharing with people the things I have learned about Life, Alternative Health and Nutrition, Metaphysical and Spiritual experiences. I love helping people solve complicated life problems. I\u2019m also a gourmet cook, that\u2019s my real relaxation, that and Yoga, dance movement, tennis, and walking.\u201d<\/p>\n

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