Savannah Churchill

US rhythm & blues and pop singer. Savannah Churchill was born Savannah Valentine on August 21, 1920 in Colfax, LA. An only child, her father was a railroad man, working for the Missouri Pacific. In 1926, the Valentine family became part of the great black exodus from the rural South to the urban North, as Savannah's father switched from the Missouri Pacific to the Pennsylvania Railroad and moved the family to Brookly…