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Currently, Verna Harvey is 19 years, 7 months and 5 days old. Verna Harvey will celebrate 20rd birthday on a Saturday 19th of April 2025. Below we countdown to Verna Harvey upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Verna Harvey |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Age | 19 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
| Born | April 19, 2005 ( London, England, United Kingdom) |
| Birthday | April 19 |
| Town/City | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
Verna Harvey’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Verna Harvey was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
During a trip by William Grant Still to Los Angeles in 1930 to revive a friendship with the Composer Harold Bruce Forsythe, Arvey met the young Composer. Forsythe likely asked her to read some of his piano music. Still tried twice to get her to perform his pieces, first Africa, then Four Negro Dances. The two became more acquainted, but as Forsythe and Arvey had been friends for many years (since they had both gone to Manual Arts High School), some jealousy ensued.
Arvey married Still in 1939. She was of Russian Jewish heritage and Still was African American, but their interracial union (unusual for a high-profile couple of the era) did not appear to damage their careers. The couple had two children. They were married until Still’s death in 1978.
Arvey’s first collaboration with Still came in 1939 when Langston Hughes, the original librettist for his opera Troubled Island, left the country before the project was completed. Arvey wrote the lyrics for three arias. She became the librettist for his subsequent operatic work, most notably A Bayou Legend, A Southern Interlude, Costaso and Mota.
