Turnaround stories don’t get much better than Sunday night’s 60 Minutes profile of opera star Ryan Speedo Green, whose rise in the arts was against all odds. Today, this former juvenile delinquent belts out baritone roles in the finest opera houses in the world. In the clip, it shows he is forever grateful to teacher Elizabeth Hughes, who gave him the first rung out of his hellish life from prison and an abusive home. And to his caseworker Priscilla Piñeiro-Jenkins. Green had all the cards stacked against him and recalls the lowest points of his life as he tells 60 Minutes […]
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