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{{Short description|American soprano}}
'''Rachel Walker Turner''' (1868–1943), also known as the "Creole Nightingale", was an American [[soprano]].<ref name=":0"/><ref name=":1"/>
Walker was born in 1868 in [[Cleveland, Ohio]] to parents M.L. (Lenyar) and T.W. Turner.<ref name=":2"/><ref name=":3"/> While in Cleveland, she studied music under John Underner, and by 1886, she began performing locally as a soprano singer and pianist. She joined the Midnight Star Concert Company in 1883, touring as a singer with the company. She later joined a concert company as their [[prima donna]] soprano and began touring in California.<ref name=":2"/>
In 1895, Walker moved to New York for her career. She traveled to London in 1897 and began living abroad until the onset of World War I, eventually returning to the United States in 1915.<ref name=":2"/><ref name=":3"/>
Walker died in Cleveland on November 12, 1943.<ref name=":2"/><ref name=":3"/>
==References==
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<ref name=":0">{{cite journal |title=Here and There |journal=The Colored American Magazine |date=July 1901 |volume=3 |issue=3 |page=235 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x002178902&view=1up&seq=263&skin=2021 |access-date=23 February 2022}}</ref>
<ref name=":1">{{cite news |title=Shows of the Summer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30084529/the-new-york-times/ |access-date=23 February 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=26 July 1896 |page=12}}</ref>
<ref name=":2">{{cite book |last1=Southern |first1=Eileen |title=Biographical dictionary of Afro-American and African musicians |date=1982 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0-313-21339-7 |pages=387–388 |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict00sout/page/386/mode/2up |access-date=19 August 2022}}</ref>
<ref name=":3">{{cite web |title=Turner, Rachel Walker |url=https://case.edu/ech/articles/t/turner-rachel-walker |website=Encyclopedia of Cleveland History {{!}} Case Western Reserve University |access-date=20 August 2022 |language=en |date=12 May 2018}}</ref>
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