Ruby Glover

Ruby Glover (December 6, 1929 – October 20, 2007) was a jazz vocalist who was given the title "Godmother of Jazz" in 1993 by Baltimore mayor Kurt Schmoke. As a professor at Sojourner-Douglass College, she influenced many young students of her Baltimore community one among the many tributes to her honor was being heralded as "one of the greatest champions of jazz Baltimore has ever known".

Biography Growing up in East Baltimore, Glover inherited her talents from her mother, Inez Edwards Bell, who was also a performer during the 1920s and 1930s. and her career had begun by the time she entered Dunbar High School, where she sang with a sextet during the 1940s. She began singing at dances and talent contests, and became a local favorite in Pennsylvania Avenue's jazz clubs.

She took a break later on to focus on her family, raising five children.

Glover suffered a stroke on stage while performing at the East Baltimore's Creative Alliance on October 19, 2007, and died the following day, at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, aged 77.