The late Paul Kwami leads a rehearsal in Jubilee Hall on the Fisk University campus in June 2022. A large portrait of the original Singers (background) was a gift from Queen Victoria following a ...

What’s more, a portrait of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers, commissioned by Queen Victoria, still hangs in that university hall today. Queen Victoria was so impressed by a performance of the ...

Fisk University opened in Nashville in 1866 as the first American university to offer a liberal arts education to “young men and women irrespective of color.” Five years later the school was in dire ...

Set foot on the Fisk University campus and you ... in the intricate stone arches of Cravath Hall. The floor-to-ceiling portrait of the first Fisk Jubilee Singers hanging in Jubilee Hall.

She highlighted the contributions of American composer and bandleader, Lil Hardin Armstrong, a former undergraduate student at Fisk University who lived in Jubilee Hall. The late jazz pianist made ...

The funds collected from their tours amounted to enough to keep Fisk University open and funded Jubilee Hall, the ... A life-sized portrait of the 11 Fisk Jubilee Singers who toured England ...

Image Dr. Kwami inside Jubilee Hall at Fisk University, named after the Jubilee Singers, last year.Credit...William DeShazer for The New York Times Paul Theophilus Kwami was born on March 14 ...

Kwami, who served as musical director of the Grammy-winning Fisk Jubilee Singers for nearly 30 years, has died, Fisk University said ... into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. They performed in ...