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Claude Jeter: 1914-2009

Reverend Claude Jeter, longtime member of gospel group The Swan Silvertones, passed away Tuesday (Jan. 6) at age 94. With a voice that bent and snapped like a lithe twig between his soulful tenor and screaming falsetto, Jeter led a life that was likewise all-encompassing. At turns a coal miner in rural west Virginia and the king of Chicago's gospel scene, Jeter spent his twilight years as a pastor in Harlem, N.Y....  read more