This Week in Black Faith History – Cora Martin-Moore
February 13, 2019
Cora Martin-Moore was an American contralto singer, pianist and choir director. Born in Chicago on Nov. 4, 1927, Martin-Moore was the oldest child of Lucius and Annie Moore. She took the surname Martin after being adopted at a young age by pioneering gospel artist, Sallie Martin. She began singing as a child at Chicago’s Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. As a teenager, she joined her mother’s singing group, the Sallie Martin Singers, and toured with them across America. Martin-Moore was noted for her tone, breath control and restraint on a recording of “Eyes Hath Not Seen,” and also demonstrated her versatility by singing Prof. Alex Bradford‘s
