Background
She was born in Washington, District of Columbia, and graduated from Armstrong Manual Training School, where her father, W. Bruce Evans, was the first principal.
She was born in Washington, District of Columbia, and graduated from Armstrong Manual Training School, where her father, W. Bruce Evans, was the first principal.
She graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor"s Degree in music and studied in France and Italy.
Evanti, a soprano, sang at the Belasco Theater in 1926 with Marian Anderson. She debuted in 1927 in Delibes"s Lakmé at Nice, France. As an opera singer and concert artist, she toured throughout Europe and South America.
In 1943, she performed with the Watergate Theater barge on the Potomac River.
In 1944, she appeared at The Town Hall (New York City). She received acclaim as Violetta in Verdi"s Louisiana traviata as produced by the National Negro Opera Company in 1945.
They lived at 1910 Vermont Avenue in the Shaw Neighborhood of Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, which is now known as the Evans-Tibbs House and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. They had a son, Thurlow East. Tibbs, Junior.