MATTHEWS, EDWARD

MATTHEWS, EDWARD. Concert singer (3 August 1907 in Ossining, New York; 21 February 1954 in New York, New York). He came from a musical family; his mother was a church soloist, and his sister Inez became a professional musician. He received his musical education in the public schools of Ossining and at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee (B.A. 1926), where he sang in the Fisk Quartet and toured with the Fisk Jubilee Singers for a year in Europe. Later he...