MARTIN, SALLY

MARTIN, SALLY. Gospel singer (20 November 1896 in Pittfield, Georgia). Her mother was a singer who toured on the small-church circuit in the South. When she was left an orphan at sixteen, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and there joined the Fire Baptized Holiness Church. She moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1917 and settled in Chicago, Illinois, in 1919. She sang in church choirs in both cities. In February 1932 she auditioned to sing in a chorus led by Thomas A...