Anita Patti Brown was a prominent soprano recitalist from the 1900s to the 1920s. Little is known about her early life, other than that she was born Patsy Dean in Georgia. Showing an early aptitude for music, Brown sang in various church choirs and about 1900 moved to Chicago to further her studies. While in […]

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