born and raised in the religious family of Solon and Anne McLeod in Detroit, Michigan, once hailed as a major musical capitol.  Alice became interested in music and began her study of the piano at the age of seven.  She consistently and diligently practiced and studied classical music. After moving to New York in the early sixties, Alice met and married John Coltrane, the great creator of avant-garde music and genius and master of the tenor and soprano saxophones. The innovative, futuristic sounds of the Coltrane musical heritage have set a new pace for modern music that sounded the unstruck chord throughout the world.