Cora Martin

Cora Juanita Brewer Martin-Moore was an American contralto singer, pianist and choir director born in Chicago in 1927. The oldest child of Lucius and Annie Claude James Moore, she took the surname Martin after being adopted at a young age by pioneering gospel singer 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.