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The two live of Marni Nixon: the soprano's stint in Hollywood, ghosting the vocals for the likes of Audrey Hepburn and Natalie Wood, was only one small part of a multifaceted performing career.
It could be argued that more people have heard Marni Nixon's voice than that of any soprano in history. Although she has a cherishable recording of Debussy songs that recalls the glory days of Maggie Teyte, and she was almost frighteningly accurate in her New York Philharmonic debut of Pierre Boulez's Improvisation sur Mallarme I under Leonard Bernstein, she will always be associated with her movie soundtracks. Albums with Nixon as the voice of Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady and the voice of Natalie Wood in West Side Story sold in the multiple millions, with the latter earning a listing in the Guinness Book of Worm Records. Yet not long ago, a contestant on the television ...
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