Born in 1935 to professional musicians who struggled through the Great Depression, Kaye learned early that music was a sparkle in a life otherwise defined by poverty. When her father sold her mother’s piano to fund a 1942 move to California, the family found themselves in a housing project in Wilmington. Kaye was a child of the laboring class, scrubbing floors and cleaning apartments to help her mother put food on the table. It was a ten-dollar steel guitar that eventually offered an exit ramp f...