My Late Paternal GrandMa Leatha Britto Led A Very FascINatINg LIFe & Has An INterestINg Family BackgroUNd Narrative…IN This Photo SHE Is THE 16 Yr Old Girl Highlighted WITh HEr High School Choir Group…My GrandMa Hails From Jazz Mad Kansas CITy On THE Kansas Side & Was THE YoUNgest Of 10 ChildREn…SHE GREw Up DurINg THE GREat DepREssion But Had A Very ‘Rich’ LIFe…THE KINg Of Modern Jazz & All Word Music Genius, Charlie ‘YardBird’ Parker, Was A Childhood Friend Of HEr Older BroTHErs, My GREat UNcles…HE Use To Play His Music @ THEir Night Clubs & Eat @ THEir REstaurants…I CoME From A Long LINe Of EntREpREneurs & Do-IT-For-Yourself Black Folks…LOL…My GrandMa’s FaTHEr Was One Of THE First Blacks IN Kansas CITy To own Substantial REal Estate & RUN ThrivINg BusINesses IN THE Black CommUNITy…My GrandMa’s High School Vocal Group So ImpREssed THE GREat Jimmie LUNceford, THE REal KINg Of SwINg, That THEy WERE Chosen To BE His OpenINg Act WHEn HE CaME To Town WITh THE MOST POPULAR Jazz & Dance OrcHEstra, THE Jimmie LUNceford OrcHEstra, For African AMEricans Nationally IN THE 1930S & 1940S…
I INtervieWEd My GrandMa About HEr AMazINg Experience & HEr INterview Will BE INcluded IN A DocuMEntary About Jimmie LUNceford That I AM ProducINg…WE ARE Still RaisINg $$$ For This Project & I Will INclude BElow Ways People Can HElp!!!
My GrandMa Lived To BE 88 Yrs Old, 88 KEYS ARE IN A PIANO…My GrandMa Had Music IN HEr Soul & Bones & LOVED TO DANCE UNTIL SHE COULDN’T NO MOOR!!! Also I AM RElated To THE GREat Curtis Mayfield Thru HEr BloodlINe…MOOR On That Later…SEE HOW IT WORKS??? SOMEWHERE…WE HEART U MADLY GRANDMA BRITTO!!! REST WELL JAZZ ANGEL!!!
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