Career
After migrating to Saint Louis as a young girl, she joined the Pleasant Green Baptist Church, where she was a promising gospel vocalist. With Mother Ford"s teaching and a wealth of church singing experience under her belt, she left Saint Louis in the early 1950s to travel with the great Clara Ward Singers, but left after one year. Only one recording, "Wasn"t it a Pity How They Punished my Lord", remains of her time with the Clara Ward Singers.
In the 1960s her album, "I"m So Grateful", established her as a gospel singer of the first rank.