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Neal E. Boyd (born November 18, 1975) is an American pop opera singer. He is best known as being the winner of the third season of ''America's Got Talent''. ==Early life== Neal E. Boyd grew up in Sikeston, Missouri, the son of an African American man and a white woman. Boyd and his brother were raised by their single mother in poverty.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Neal E. Boyd - My American Dream - Amazon.com Music )〕 He discovered operatic music in junior high school when his older brother was doing a school project involving classical music and brought home a CD of the Three Tenors. Boyd was so enamored by the passion and skill of the famous trio that he started learning to sing in Luciano Pavarotti's and Plácido Domingo's operatic styles. Boyd graduated from Sikeston High School in May 1994, where he was senior class president.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=seMissourian.com: Entertainment: A Neal Boyd timeline (06/30/08) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sikeston Standard Democrat: Local News: Boyd makes name for himself in song (06/05/02) )〕 He has a bachelor's degree in speech communications from Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri (May 2001), a Bachelor's degree in music from the University of Missouri–Columbia in Columbia, Missouri (May 2001)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=seMissourian.com: Entertainment: 2002: Sikeston throws a party for Neal Boyd (06/30/08) )〕 and a Master’s degree in management from the online University of Phoenix.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=seMissourian.com: Local News: Candidate questionnaire: Neal E. Boyd (10/01/12) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=seMissourian.com: Local News: After weight loss, Boyd says ‘time is now' to run for House (03/15/12) )〕 Boyd was president of the Student Senate at Southeast Missouri State University,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=seMissourian.com: Local News: Singer Neal E. Boyd to run for Missouri House seat (09/13/11) )〕 where he was also a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Southeast Missouri State University )〕 While in college, Boyd interned at the capitol in Jefferson City, Missouri.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=seMissourian.com: Column: Lucas Presson ~ Southeast Missourian: The Sunday Interview: Neal E. Boyd is raising his voice )〕 He was the winner of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Vocal Collegiate Championship in 2000 while in the voice studio of Professor Ann Harrell of University of Missouri–Columbia. This national win led to his solo debut at New York City's famed Carnegie Hall in March 2001. After teaching music for the 2001–2002 school year in his hometown of Sikeston, Missouri, in 2002, he attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston to study opera.〔 This led to a role as the slave "York" in Michael Ching's World Premier Opera "Corps of Discovery, A Musical Journey," commissioned by University of Missouri–Columbia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neal E. Boyd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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