Thomas Andrew Dorsey was the son of a preacher man. Born in 1899 in the Deep South, his father was a sharecropper and itinerate preacher. From early on, ...

Thomas Andrew Dorsey was born in Villa Rica on July 1, 1899, to Etta Plant Spencer and Thomas Madison Dorsey, an itinerant preacher and sharecropper. Dorsey was first exposed to music in church, where ...