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Charles Exodus Drayton was an American dramatic baritone.

Career
1900, Drayton was a student at Claflin University.

Drayton founded the Four Harmony Kings, vocal quartet which, during a European tour, performed for Pope Pius XI at the Vatican February 13, 1932.


 * April 1919: the Four Harmony Kings were composed of:


 * 1) Bass: William Allen Hann (born January 9, 1881)
 * 2) 2nd Tenor: William Howard Berry (1889–1942)
 * 3) Baritone: Charles Exodus Drayton
 * 4) Ivan Harold Browning (1891–1978)


 * 1918: William D. Burns, William A. Hann, William H. Berry, Charles Exodus Drayton

James Reese Europe
James Reese Europe in Boston at Mechanics Hall, during an intermission, berated a drummer, Herbert Wright, who became enraged and lunged at Europe with a pen knife. Wright was convicted of manslaughter and served 8 years of a 10-year sentence in a Massachusetts penitentiary.

After his release in 1927, he lived quietly in Roxbury, Boston, working as a dance band drummer. At some point he gave a neighborhood boy his first drum lesson. That boy was Roy Haynes. Haynes lived on the same street as Wright – Haskins Street, a street that was discontinued February 9, 1976.

Family
Drayton was of Ethiopian descent, according to his Draft Registration for World War I.