Faye Carol

Faye Carol is an American jazz and blues singer.

Faye Carol was born in Meridian, Mississippi.^[1] After moving with her family to Pittsburg, California, she participated in youth choir at the Solomon Temple Missionary Baptist Church.^[1] She sang in blues bars after graduating from high school and won a talent contest in Oakland, California.^[1] She worked with locals blues musicians such as Eddie Foster, Johnny Heartsman, and Johnny Talbot.^[1] During the 1970s she became more of a cabaret singer.^[1]

From 2001 until 2013, Carol was founder and director of the Music in the Community program at the Black Repertory Group in Berkeley, California.^[2]

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