Gloria Roberts, daughter of Pearl Hinds and Frederick Madison Roberts, graduated from the University of Southern California and studied at the Juilliard School of Music. She lived most of her life in Europe, where she pursued a career as a concert pianist and accompanist, specializing in African American spirituals and the music of George Gershwin as well as European classical composers. She lived as a child in the household of her grandmother Ellen Hemings Roberts and remembers her well.
Ancestry
Elizabeth Hemings
1735-1807Sally Hemings
1773-1835Madison Hemings
1805-1877Ellen Hemings Roberts
1856-1940Gloria Roberts
1924-2011
