PANKEY, AUBREY

PANKEY, AUBREY. Concert singer (19?? in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 19?? in New York, New York). As a child he sang in an Episcopalian church choir (boy soprano). He obtained his musical education at Hampton Institute in Virginia, where he sang with the college glee club and was encouraged by R. Nathaniel Dett to enter a music career. Later he studied at the Oberlin [Ohio] Conservatory of Music and at Boston [Massachusetts] University. He also studied privately with Arthur Hubbard ...