Jubilant Sykes

Sykes was raised in Los Angeles, where he sang soprano as a boy. He is African American. He has performed with Christopher Parkening and other artists,Epstein, Benjamin, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-13-ca-12354-story.html "Singer's Not Jubilant in Name Alone"], Los Angeles Times, 13 December 1996 and has appeared in such venues as the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carnegie Hall,Tommasini, Anthony, [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/arts/music/27mass.html Music Review: The Bernstein Mass Project], New York Times 26 October 2008 the Kennedy Center, London's Barbican Centre, the Apollo Theater, Hollywood Bowl, New Orleans Jazz Festival and hundreds of other major venues around the world.

Sykes performed the role of the Celebrant in the Grammy Award-nominated 2009 recording of Leonard Bernstein's Mass, with the Morgan State University Choir and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop, for Naxos Records.{{cite web |author=[No authors listed] |year=2009 |title=Bernstein MASS |url=http://www.naxos.com/feature/bernstein_mass.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208201918/http://www.naxos.com/feature/bernstein_mass.asp |archive-date=2015-12-08 |accessdate=2011-06-13 |publisher=Naxos Records}}

• Jubilant (Sony Music, 1998)
• Wait for Me (Sony, 2001)
• Jubilation (Angel Records, 2007)
• Jubilant Sykes Sings Copland and Other Spirituals (Ariola Records, 2010)

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• [http://www.bruceduffie.com/sykes.html Interview with Jubilant Sykes], April 23, 1998

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Category:21st-century African-American male singers

Category:21st-century American male singers

Category:20th-century African-American male singers

Category:20th-century American male opera singers

Category:African-American male opera singers

Category:American operatic baritones

Category:Living people

Category:Singers from Los Angeles

Category:1960 births

Category:Classical musicians from California

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