Lily Pons

Person · Open Library

Born

1898

Died

1976

Works

2

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

France

Active from

1898-04-12

Active to

1976-02-13

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

791

Total plays

5,198

Lily Pons (April 12, 1898 – February 13, 1976) was a French-American coloratura soprano. Born Alice Joséphine Pons in Draguignan near Cannes, Pons first studied piano at the Paris Conservatory, winning the First Prize at the age of 15. During World War I, she played piano and sang for soldiers in Paris hospitals. She also sang at receptions in Cannes. In 1925, encouraged by soprano Dyna Beumer, she started taking singing lessons from Alberti de Gorostiaga in Paris. <a href="https://www.last.fm/

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A program for annotating and predicting the effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms, SnpEff

   · 2012 · cited 11,283x

2. A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

   · 2010 · cited 9,935x

3. Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Fundus Photographs

   · 2016 · cited 6,579x

4. Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome

   · 2011 · cited 6,387x

5. A metagenome-wide association study of gut microbiota in type 2 diabetes

   · 2012 · cited 6,033x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Lily

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Draguignan

Place of death

Dallas

Spouse

Andre Kostelanetz

Occupation

film actor

Educated at

Conservatoire de Paris

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Award

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Genre

opera

Instrument

voice

Image

Lily Pons, NPG 97 214 (cropped).jpg

Voice type

coloratura soprano

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