- Was one of the first African-American mezzo-sopranos to perform internationally.
- Children: son Anthony, daughter Juliana.
- Black opera singer in the mezzo-soprano range.
- She attended Wilberforce College in Dayton, Ohio. She initially wanted to study languages and become a translator. A professor encouraged her to join the college chorus, where she became interested in a singing career. She attended the Hartford School of Music, and what is now the Tanglewood Music Center.
- Her father worked in a steel mill, and her mother took in laundry. Betty often heard the Metropolitan Opera's radio broadcasts on her neighbors' radios.
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