About Alexander Smalls
Born 1952. Alexander Smalls is an entrepreneur, chef, writer, musician and opera singer.
Alexander Smalls (born February 7, 1952) is an African-American chef, restaurateur, and former opera singer.
Smalls was born on February 7, 1952, in Spartanburg, South Carolina into a Gullah Geechee family. He graduated from Spartanburg High School in 1970, attended Wofford College and then the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he studied opera, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1974. He also studied at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music.
Before he became a restaurateur, Smalls won Grammy and Tony Awards for a cast recording of Porgy and Bess.
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American restaurateur and singer (born 1952)
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