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May 2007 – N'Kenge gives a performance of Last Diva Standing! at Queens College with a Masterclass to follow

April 2007 – N'Kenge is featured in a large article with famed Opera singer Harolyn Blackwell in Uptown Magazine entitled Opera Divas!

January 2007 – N'kenge is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in her performance in 3 MO'Divas

December 2006 – N'Kenge makes her debut with Long Island Philharmonic

August 2006 – N'Kenge makes her debut at Arena Stage in DC in 3 Mo'Divas

June 2006 – N'kenge is Nominated for Lead Actress in her Aida performance

March 2006 – N'Kenge makes her debut in the title role in Elton John's musical Aida

Jan 2006 – N'Kenge makes her debut with Little Orchestra Society singing at Alice Tully Hall in Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta

October 2005 – N’kenge sings at a Black Tie event held at the National Arts Club honoring Famed perfume and clothing Designer Oleg Cassini

Summer of 2005 – N'Kenge stars in The Genius of Ray Charles Show at the Royal Haymarket Theater in London.

January 2005 – N'Kenge makes her debut with the Bellvue Philharmonic in Washington State.

Fall of 2004 - N'Kenge is invited to sing for the Colin Powell at the George C. Marshall Foundation.

February 2004 – N'Kenge becomes one of Marion Caffey’s 3 Mo’Divas which makes it World Premiere at the San Diego Repertory Theater.

Summer of 2003 – N'Kenge tours throughout Czech Republic singing the role of Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro

January 2003 –N'Kenge is the only American Opera Singer to make it to the finals in the Francisco Vinas Vocal Competition in Spain where she sang at the Theater de Liceu.

October 2003 - N'Kenge hails in the role of Despina in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte this season with the Seattle Opera House. She comes back to the East Coast for a few days in November to sing for a George C. Marshall Foundation honoring Collin Powell.

September 2003 - N'Kenge is seen teaching at a school in Harlem through Simpson Arts bringing music to the communities.

August 2003 - Conductor Arthur Fagen from the Dortmund Opera House in Germany invites N'Kenge to be a featured Soprano in a 3 Divas Concert with the Queens Symphony.

May 2003 - N'Kenge returns from singing the role of Musetta in Puccini's La Boheme with the Virginia Opera.

April 2003 - N'Kenge is a featured pop/opera singer with dancers for an Olympus Camera Industrial Trade Show in Hamburg, Germany.

December 2002 - United Nations invites N'Kenge to give a special performance with the World Children's Choir for the Visionary Awards honoring Kofi Anan

September 2002 - N'Kenge returns from touring throughout the Czech Republic in which she sang the role of Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro.

April 2002 - N'Kenge sings at a Elementary School through Virginia Opera's Community Outreach

 DID YOU KNOW????

N'Kenge is the Regional Operations Manager of her mother's company Simpson Personnel Services which has offices in lower Manhattan, White Plains and Tampa, FL when she is not on stage performing

N'Kenge sings at the White House for the Christmas Holiday

N'Kenge sang Jazz with both Wynton Marsales and Ornette Coleman at Lincoln Center

Shea Stadium invited N'kenge to sing the National Anthem for the Mets Game twice!

Her first sung role ever was Clara in Gershwin's Porgy & Bess with the Aspen Opera Theater

N'Kenge was crowned Miss Manhattan in the Miss America Pageant

N'Kenge was crowned Miss New York State Talented Teen 

N'Kenge was the first recipient of the ASCAP Lieber & Stoller Foundation Award

N'Kenge was also the first Opera Singer to win the Lena Horne Vocal Competition.