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- Christiane Eda-Pierre was born on March 24, 1932 in Fort de France, Martinique. She was an actress, known for Babel opéra, ou la répétition de Don Juan de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1985), The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977) and Les contes d'Hoffmann (1978). She died on September 6, 2020 in Faye-l'Abbesse, Deux-Sèvres, France.
- Opera singer (soprano).
- Niece of Négritude (French Black consciousness) women intellectuals Paulette Nardal and Jeanne Nardal.
- First Black French woman opera singer to be world renowned.
- She created in 1983 the role of the angel in Olivier Messiaen's Saint-François d'Assise that the composer wrote for her.
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