Summary
A few lucky folks saw and heard Waltye Rasulala at an informal concert in front of the Botetourt Historical Society museum some years back, or singing at The Glebe. Now, you have a chance to get to know her better, hear more of her singing and more of her grandmother's poetry.
To start with, her first name is pronounced wall-tea and her last is rah-sue-lah-lah. Her first name comes from the feminine form of Walter, after her father, Walter Winston Johnson, Jr. He practiced medicine in Covington for 50 years. She herself was born in Washington, DC, because her father wanted her mother cared for by a physician there under whom he had studied at Howard University. But she soon came back home, and grew up in Covington.See the full content of this document
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Voice and Poetry Will Combine for Concert
Came time for college, so Rasulala went to Westminster Choir College, in Princeton, N.J., for an undergraduate degree in voice, followed by a gr...
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