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Claude Jeter Gospel Singer with Wide Influence Dies

January 11, 2009

The Rev. Claude Jeter, the founder of the gospel group the Swan Silvertones whose delicate yet potent falsetto had a wide influence on both pop and religious singers in the 1950s and 60s, died on Tuesday in the Bronx. He was 94. A versatile stylist, Mr. Jeter once sang bass with the Dixie Hummingbirds. But he ...