Enid Watkins

Enid Watkins (July 23, 1890 - January 5, 1971), was a soprano singer, and a dancer who performed Native American dance in the 1910s.[1][2]

Biography

She was born on July 23, 1890, in Chicago, Illinois, to William Watkins and Sara Jane Leonard.

According to her Associated Press obituary, she performed in opera companies in New York, San Francisco and France between 1917 and 1932.[3] She was also a founder and co-chairperson of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.[3]

She married Armin Degener.[3] She died on January 5, 1971, in California.[4]

References
  1. "Miss Watkins in Indian Songs". The New York Times. January 11, 1917. Retrieved 2011-01-27.
  2. "Enid Watkins". The Musical monitor. 1914. Retrieved 2011-01-27. Enid Watkins, a California girl, who has made a study of the Zuni tribes of the Southwest, sang a group of Indian songs in costume at the Plaza, New York, recently, in a new series, of entertainments, under direction of Mrs. R.W. ...
  3. "Enid Watkins, Arts Patron,Dies". Santa Cruz Sentinel. Associated Press. January 8, 1971 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  4. "Gateman Looks Back on Flamboyant Past". Los Angeles Times. March 21, 1972. Retrieved 2011-01-27. Armin Degener could have answered the tourist in French or German ... and theater notices about his wife soprano Enid Watkins who died last January ...
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