FRYE, THEODORE

FRYE, THEODORE. Gospel singer (10 September 1899 in Fayette, Mississippi; 26 August 1963 in Chicago, Illinois). He settled in Chicago, Illinois, in 1927 and soon thereafter began a professional association with the Ebenezer Baptist Church. In 1931 he organized the Chicago Gospel Choral Union, along with Thomas A. Dorsey and Magnolia Butts Lewis ; and in 1932 he was a co-founder with Dorsey of the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses . About 1937 he and Roberta...