- She was invited to Atlanta, Georgia in 1967, to head the Southern Regional Opera Company. Their first production was a spectacular version of Henry Purcell's "King Arthur", staged at the just-completed Memorial Arts Center (now the Woodruff Arts Center). It was a success with the critics, but the company soon went bankrupt.
- American mezzo-soprano. She was once a member of the Metropolitan Opera.
- She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 1651 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
- Raised in Canton, Ohio as the daughter of Swedish immigrants.
- When she was a teenager, she and her parents went to Sweden. She was heard singing in the ship's lounge by a pianist who was the accompanist of Marian Anderson. He arranged for Thebom to study voice in New York with a professional opera singer.
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