Queer Music Heritage, the band at large came together as youth through the Piney Woods School, a school for Black orphans in Mississippi.
The band was originally created to help raise funds for the school, and after gaining some notoriety, cut ties with the school to chase loftier musical success.
They found it in tours, recording offers, and even a USO show across Europe.In the band and far beyond, Davis and Lucas would come to be one another’s actual sweethearts.
Around the time she joined the band, Davis left her husband and fell for Lucas (though which event happened first is a bit murky).Their brazen queer relationship reportedly got the pair kicked from Davis’ Kansas City residence.