Verna Osborne
Verna Osborne (May 12, 1903 – April 7, 2006) was an American soprano and voice teacher. Born Verna MacMahan (also spelled MacMahon) in Brooklyn, she adopted the name of Verna Osborne after beginning her career as a concert pianist in the early 1920s at the age of 18. She trained as a soprano under Estelle Liebling and by 1923 she was working as a singer on the radio in New York City. She was principally a radio vocalist in New York for the next thirteen years, working primarily for the WEAF (now WFAN) and WOR radio stations, notably having her own program on the latter station from 1933 to 1936. She made her debut on the concert stage in 1934 at New York City's Town Hall. By 1937 Osborne had relocated to Los Angeles where she worked as a radio and church vocalist. In May 1938 she joined NBC Radio in San Francisco where she had her own program that aired three times a week in the late 1930s. She lived in the San Francisco region for the rest of her life. As a performer she is ...
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