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Her father played the ukulele and guitar and sang professionally in nightclubs with a group called Step ' n ' Fetchit.
Gaynor was not allowed to sing with the all-male group, nor was her younger brother, Arthur, because he was too young.
The family was relatively poor, but Gaynor recalls the house being filled with laughter and happiness, and the dinner table being open to neighbourhood friends.
" All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it ," Gaynor wrote in her autobiography.
Because no one in the house paid attention to her singing she never got the feeling that any of them thought she had a good voice but after an initial rush of stage fright before her first solo, Gaynor's confidence in her singing grew.
To appease her mother, who wanted Gaynor to have " something to fall back on ," she went to beauty school and took business courses.
While she continued to practice her singing, she worked many non-singing jobs in the years after high school, including a job at Bamberger's department store.
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