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Obituary: Winifred Collings

Monday 19 October 1992 23:02 BST
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Winifred Collings, singer, died Chelmsford, aged 95. A leading amateur soprano, she was reputedly the first person to sing on radio. Asked by Guglielmo Marconi in 1920, she sang in the world's first musical radio broadcast.

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