Kathleen Ferrier

Kathleen Ferrier

Kathleen Mary Ferrier, CBE (22 April 1912 – 8 October 1953) was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the classical works of Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar. Her death from cancer, at the height of her fame, was a shock to the musical world and particularly to the general public, which was kept in ignorance of the nature of her illness until after her death. The daughter of a Lancashire village schoolmaster, Ferrier showed early talent as a pianist, and won numerous amateur piano competitions while working as a telephonist with the General Post Office. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kathleen Ferrier has received more than 272,074 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Kathleen Ferrier is the 522nd most popular singer (up from 563rd in 2019), the 1,835th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,930th in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Singer.