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Performance: May 1, 2012, Southern California-USA.

Spinto Soprano LaTόnya Rosetta is emerging in Opera, & has worked in Jazz, Top 40, Rhythm and Blues, and Musical Theatre.

As a Screen Actors Guild Actress, she is featured in the 2012 national television commercial for Jackson-Hewitt Tax Accountants, and she is also co-starring in (& co-produced) the upcoming TV-Web series, "Santa Cruz Tornado Blues," which will air in May 2012.

Her classical & operatic singing credits include preparation for the lead of TOSCA in Puccini's classic Opera. She also, performed with the International Opera Alliance, in Beverly Hills with Maestro Peter Mark; recitals with Ella Lee, the Artistic Director of Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera; solo performances with the Lake Shrine Temple Singers, in Pacific Palisades, and scene performances as "Maddalena" in Verdi's Rigoletto, and "The Baroness" in Samuel Barber's Vanessa, at the Santa Monica Performing Arts Center.

A Los Angeles, CA native, LaTόnya is a graduate of Washington D.C.'s Howard University (where she worked with Grammy-winning Gospel recording artist Richard Smallwood). She's also studied Music at The University of Southern California, where she met Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis, then soon launched her singing & recording career. She was a long-time soloist at The AGAPE International Spiritual Center, in Culver City, CA, founded by Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith.

She has performed in Musical Theatre productions for Walt Disney, and with The West Coast Ensemble, in Hollywood. In Pop & R&B music, she sung internationally as a Lead Singer opening for many, including Revival tours for legendary Motown, Pop/Soul/ Rhythm and Blues, and Gospel Acts.

Tonya completed coursework for the Master of Music Degree in (Opera) Vocal Performance in Southern CA-USA, while also presenting her very own Operatic Theatrical Performance Character, COUNTESS GRATITUDE : www.facebook.com/CountessGratitude