Winifred Atwell

Winifred Atwell ( born February 27, 1914 in Tunapuna, † February 28, 1983 in Sydney) was a pianist from Trinidad. She was the first woman who had a number -one hit in the UK with an instrumental (Let's Have Another Party, 1954).

Life and work

Atwell moved in the early 1940s to America to study with Alexander Borowski piano. She continued her studies as a concert pianist at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1946. She also explores played piano in clubs. Beginning of the 50s they got a recording contract with Decca, and she had a number of instrumental hits in the British charts with ragtime and boogie -woogie pieces, ranging from the Britannia Rag and the Coronation Rag. George Botsfords Black and White Rag became her signature tune. Your version of Poor People of Paris in 1956 reached even place first she also took on medleys such as Let 's Have a Party, in which she plays the If You Knew Susie, The More We Are Together, Knees Up Mother Brown, Daisy Bell, Boomps a Daisy and She Was One of the Early Birds combined. Your virtuoso piano playing was, inter alia, to hear in the 1950s on Radio Luxembourg and influenced musicians like Keith Emerson. She was several times on tour in Australia, where she lived from the 1970s.