Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, January 8, 1995                   TAG: 9501070046
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 6   EDITION: METRO 
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NAME: JOAN EUBANK.

OCCUPATION: Opera singer. Has sung with the New York Philharmonic, worked with conductors Zubin Mehta and Sir Colin Davis. Has also waited tables, and currently works part-time in a financial services office and sings at a church to make ends meet.

LIVES IN: Manhattan

MARRIED: No.

HOMETOWN: Roanoke.

PARENTS: Benjamin Eubank and Betty Blount, Roanoke.

EDUCATION: Patrick Henry High School, North Carolina School of the Arts, American Institute of Musical Studies (in Austria).

ARRIVED IN NEW YORK: 1989.

REASON: "I drove here with my then-boyfriend. We just wanted to see what it was like."

WHAT SHE'S LEARNED ABOUT ACHIEVING SUCCESS: "I think your desire has to be stronger than your self-doubt. And my self-doubt is pretty high."

QUOTE: "Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to have a normal life."