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Robert Todd Duncan is born in Danville, Kentucky, USA. Under the name Todd Duncan, he will become one of the first African-Americans to sing with a major opera company, appear as Porgy in the premier production of Porgy and Bess and will make the first recorded version of Unchained Melody.