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Brazil's top singer, a descendent of educator Booker T. Washington, raises money for Wolf Trap concert hall. (Eliana Pittman)

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From: Jet
Date: 19951009
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Pittman performed at a fundraising Rio carnival that benefitted the Wolf Trap concert hall in northern Virginia. The benefit raised over $250,000. Pittman is the step-great-granddaughter of Booker T. Washington.

For her first U.S. appearance in many years, Eliana Pittman, a dynamic, hip-switching Brazilian singer raised more than a quarter million dollars to "help promote Wolf Trap, the famous concert hall and training institution for the performing arts in northern Virginia."

Few at the high-brow, mostly White society ball who paid $250 or more admission realized that the performer ...

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