THARPE, ROSETTA

THARPE, (SISTER) ROSETTA (née ROSETTA NUBIN). Gospel singer (20 March 1921 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas; 9 October 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Her mother, Katie Bell Nubin , was an evangelist of the Holiness church, and Rosetta began traveling with her at an early age. Rosetta began touring as a professional when she was six with evangelist P. W. McGhee on the tent-meeting circuit. She toured widely thereafter, sometimes singing to her mother's accompaniment on a mandolin...