MCFERRIN, ROBERT

McFERRIN, ROBERT. Concert/opera singer (19 March 1921 in Marianna, Arkansas). His family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, when he was six years old. As a child he sang in the choir of his father's church. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of St. Louis, where he attended Sumner High School; at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee (1940-41); at Chicago [Illinois] Musical College (B.Mus., 1948), where he studied with George Graham; and at the Kathryn...