| Summary: | Academic administrator, composer, and music director Robert Winfrey was born in Atlanta, Georgia on June 14, 1933. His parents, Pete and Ethel Winfrey, and sisters, Frances and Betty, lived in the Grady Holmes Housing Project during Winfrey's youth. Winfrey graduated from David T. Howard High School in 1950, and from Morehouse College in 1955, with degrees in music composition. Winfrey revolutionized the musical scene and music education in Boston, Massachusetts over a twenty-eight year period. A builder of a multi-cultural school music program in Boston, Winfrey made music education available to all students at the high school level. In addition to his work in the city of Boston, Winfrey served as the director of the world-renown Kuumba Singers of Harvard University for twenty-five years. His signature composition, Let's Build A City, is well-known and was sung across the United States.
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