Verolga Nix

NIX, Verolga. b. Cleveland, Ohio, 6 April 1933; d. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 9 December 2014. The daughter of Rev. Andrew W. Nix Sr. and Ida A. Nix, Verolga Nix was a noted pianist, choral conductor, composer, arranger of gospel songs and African American spirituals*, and co-editor of the influential Songs of Zion (Nashville, 1981) with Judge Jefferson Cleveland*.  Her musical education began with voice and piano study at age six. She became organist at Mount Zion Baptist Church (Holmesburg, Pennsylvania), where her father was pastor, at age 16. She began her formal study at New England Conservatory and concluded her undergraduate education at Oberlin Conservatory of Music (BM, 1955)...