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Arizona Dranes
American singer and pianist
Musical artist
Juanita "Arizona" Dranes (May 4,[1] 1889 or 1891 – July 27, 1963) was an American blind female gospel singer and pianist.
Dranes was one of the first gospel artists to bring the musical styles of Holiness churches' religious music to the public in her records for Okeh Records and performances in the 1920s. She was also one of the first professional woman gospel singers.
Her distinctive, nasal vocal style and piano playing that incorporated boogie and ragtime, influenced later gospel artists.
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Biography
Juanita Drane (or possibly Drain) was born blind in 1889 or 1891[2] in Sherman, Texas. Drane attended the Texas Institute for Deaf, Dumb and Blind Colored Youth in Austin, Texas, from 1896 to 1910.
She learned to play piano in her early teens.[3]
Drane had been believed to be of both African-American and Mexican descent,[4] but research by Michael Corcoran for He Is M