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Gaye Adegbalola is a blues singer and guitarist, teacher,
lecturer, activist, and photographer. She was born Gaye Todd
in Fredericksburg, Virginia on 21 March, 1944.
Gaye's father, Clarence R.
Todd, worked as a planner and estimator and was also an artist and jazz
musician, as well as one of the co-founders of the Harambee 3601 Experimental
Theatre. Her mother, Gladys P. Todd, was one of the first organizers
of the local civil rights movement in Fredericksburg, and also brought
old jazz records home from from her job at the Youth Canteen to give to
the young Gaye. Both parents were major influences on her music and
social identity.
Gaye's "righteous name," Adegbalola, was given to
her by a Yoruba priest she met in 1968. Meaning, "the king has come
to reclaim his royalty," Ms. Adegbalola uses this name in all her "righteous
work," including her singing, to signify that she has come into her own.
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