Jubilant Sykes On "Breath & Imagination"

Connecticut Public Radio | By Colin McEnroe

Published January 30, 2013 at 3:27 PM EST

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If you follow music, you might know the work of Jubilant Sykes as a recording artist, and as a guest performer with orchestras. He's starring right now at Hartford Stage Company in a biographical play about another singer whose story begins during Reconstruction, "Breath & Imagination". Roland Hayes re-wrote the rules about what African-American vocalists could do.

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Colin McEnroe is a radio host, newspaper columnist, magazine writer, author, playwright, lecturer, moderator, college instructor and occasional singer. Colin can be reached at colin@ctpublic.org.

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