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Rev. 'Little' Lucy Smith

CTL-E-0580 · Person · 1960

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Rev. 'Little' Lucy Smith, a Roberta Martin protégé, became a master of organ and piano and the official pianist for the Roberta Martin Singers in the early 1960s.

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-infra-061; source research type(s): person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

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