BUMBRY, GRACE ANN. Opera singer ( in St. Louis, Missouri). She came from a musical family: her father was a church organist, and her mother was a church pianist. As a child she sang in a church choir and began piano study at the age of seven. She received her musical education in the public schools of St. Louis, Missouri, where she came under the tutelage of Kenneth Billups at Sumner High School and studied voice with him privately;...