HIGGINBOTHAM, IRENE

HIGGINBOTHAM, IRENE. Songwriter (11 June 1918 in Worcester, Massachusetts). She came from a musical family: her mother (who died when Irene was two years old) was music teacher, and an uncle, J. C. Higginbotham , was a professional jazz trombonist. She began piano study at the age of four. She obtained her musical training at the Atlanta [Georgia] University Laboratory School, where she studied with Kemper Harreld and Frederick Hall . She began writing songs when she was...