Here’s a list of some singers at previous presidential inaugurations, in chronological order from the 60s: John F Kennedy, 1961: Contralto Marian Anderson sang “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Lyndon B.

Presentation of Spingarn medal to Marian Anderson by Mrs .Roosevelt ... when I was weary of singing and singers, and when a tall calm girl poured out ‘Deep River' in the twilight and made ...

Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) had a voice that came along "once in a hundred years." When one of Anderson's teachers first heard her sing, the ...