The stories of the Rev. Baybie Hoover and her Deaconess of Music, Virginia Brown, haunted the author since he first met them singing on the streets of New York. Baybie had few, if any, reasons to be grateful about life. Her childhood was marked by a succession of tragedies. Blinded at birth by a drunken doctor, she was later molested by a foster father, became pregnant and her daughter was sold into adoption against her will. Yet the few people in her life, those she met on the street and the six who attended her small church in an abandoned storefront in Brooklyn brought her joy. Baybie was always grateful for the little she had and rarely judged those visiting misery on her. I Am Baybie though based in fact it should be understood as a work of fiction. For readers, a website of their music and images from their lives is available online.