(soprano)
Nora Gruhn decided at the age of three to become an operatic singer, and when she was five won a prize for singing ' I'm twenty-one today ' at a seaside minstrel show. She began composing at the age of nine. Ten years later she secured a three-years' contract for the Palatinate Opera House, singing sixty-six parts during the three years. From there she went to Cologne Opera House for a year before returning to London and joining the Covent Garden
Opera Company. She first broadcast in 1930.