Hope Foye

Classically trained (soprano) American folk and jazz singer. (1921-) She performed with such artists as Pete Seeger, Paul Robeson, and The Weavers. Also, in Bob Fosse's first musical, Dance Me a Song, in which she premiered the song "Lilac Wine."[ Foye, a civil rights activist, suffered under the McCarran Committee and as a result left the United States for a career in Mexico and Europe.