Bass, Martha

Bass, Martha Martha Carter Bass Peaston (1921, Arkansas; September 21, 1998, Saint Louis, MO) Martha Bass ’s family moved to Saint Louis, Missouri, when she was two years old, and Martha joined the Pleasant Green Baptist Church at an early age, under the leadership of Pastor Reverend G. H. Pruitt. Influenced by the National Baptist Conventions, she started to read the Bible and to sing in the choir with a dark, powerful contralto and, from the beginning, was outstandingly good, like her own…