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Rhoda Chase
Rhoda Chase, née Anna Blanor (June 21, 1914 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania – October 14, 1978 in Mexico City) was “The Blue Velvet Voice”, a popular radio, stage, nightclub and USO blues singer.
==Background and childhood==
Rhoda Chase was born of well-to-do 〔During the Coal Boom of the early part of the 20th century, Uniontown, Pennsylvania was home to at least 13 millionaires, the most (per capita) of any city in the United States.〕 Russian 〔Born in Saint Petersburg, the capital of Russia until 1918. The city's other names were Petrograd (1914–1924) and Leningrad (1924–1991).〕 parents, Andrew Blanor and Maria Vanchek. Anna, and her four brothers and sisters, lost their parents to the 1918 flu pandemic when Anna was four. Blanor later explained that greedy relatives chose to deprive them of their inheritance as well as protection causing her and her siblings to be raised by different foster parents within the Russian community. She also explained that in spite of a kind foster father, who was a coal miner, her alcoholic foster mother beat her and forbade her to go to school, except when forced by the truant officer. Scars on her knees bore testimony to her claim that she was punished by being forced her to kneel on hot coals. At the age of eleven, Anna recalls returning from a field trip with her fourth grade classmates and feeling the blood stream down her face from a cut caused by a broken bottle her drunken foster mother had thrown at her in anger. This event resulted in her running away from home, hiding out with her 15-year-old brother, Barry, also a runaway, who protected her until he was caught and thrown into reform school. Frightened, alone, and unable to speak English fluently, Blanor found work as a maid in the home of a wealthy family. She did odd jobs in sales and modeling her hands and face and began her singing career. By this time, her Russian was reduced to “От имени отца, сына, святого духа, аминь” ("In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, Amen."), her Russian prayer book being the only reminder of her childhood.
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