Florence Foster Jenkins: The WORST Singer Of All Time

Florence Foster Jenkins (July 19, 1868 – November 26, 1944) was in love with music and opera but did not have the ear and voice of music. She was the famous name of American high society who left her mark on music history with her strange personality and managed to get the title of the worst singer of all time. She did not give up the music she was devoted to and supported the young musicians financially. She organized events that brought music lovers together. The only flaw of the art lover Florence Foster Jenkins was that she was unaware of her own voice. When you listen to his audio recordings, you have a hard time believing that this is not a joke.

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Florence, who started to take piano lessons at an early age, gave her first concert at the age of 7. After the death of her father in 1909, she took singing lessons and continued her music career, with a heavy legacy. She constantly chased after her passions with great energy and courage. Unbelievable for many critics that she even thought of singing, Florence sang and performed for many years. There were laughing sounds from the hall as she sang. She thought those laughing people were jealous of her.

Like her interesting voice, her costumes also attracted attention. She believed that her voice was louder after screaming during an accident in a taxi in 1943 and she could reach the legendary Fa note. Instead of suing the taxi company, she thanked the driver by sending a box of cigars. In 1944 she decides to give a concert in one of her great ideals, Carnegie Hall. On the evening of 25 October 1944, it was told that the hall of three thousand people was crammed with dollars and even thousands of people were left at the door. However, a month after this concert, she passed away at the age of seventy-six in his apartment in Hotel Seymour, where she lived in Manhattan. Her life was adapted to the movie Marguerite by Xavier Giannoli in 2015 and to the movie Florence directed by Stephen Frears in 2016.