United States, Georgia, Gordon County, 34.50336, -84.8757519501950. Roland Hayes was born in 1887 on a plantation near Curryville, Ga. He worked with parents in the fields and did odd jobs in the neighborhood. When he was fourteen he moved with his mother to Chatanooga, Tenn. There people of wealth noticed his singing voice and he was given the opportunity to study music at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn. Over the years he became an internationally known concert singer with concerts at Carnegie Hall and in Europe to his credit. He died in Brookline, Mass. in 1977.image/jpeghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/Arts--Georgia--Gordon CountyPortraits--Georgia--Gordon CountyCarnegie Hall Roland HayesStillImage