Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins was an American socialite and amateur operatic soprano who was known and ridiculed for her lack of rhythm, pitch, and tone, her aberrant pronunciation, and her generally poor singing ability.

Nascina Florence Foster was born in WilkesBarre, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Mary Jane and Charles Dorrance Foster . She had one sibling, a sister named Lillian, who died at agein 1883. She dropped her first name and went by her middle name, Florence, during her formative years. Her father was a lawyer, and his family was wealthy and owned land near Back Mountain, Pennsylvania.

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