ATWELL, Winifred
Name:
ATWELL, Winifred (1914-1983)
Musical genre:
Chamber Music, Singer-Songwriter, Solo Instrument
Country of birth:
Trinidad and Tobago
Country of location:
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Notes:
Una Winifred Atwell was a pianist and composer born in the country of Trinidad who migrated to Britain and who enjoyed great popularity in Britain and Australia from the 1950s with a series of boogie-woogie and ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records.She was the first black artist to have a number-one hit in the UK singles chart and had the first piano instrumental to reach number one in the UK singles chart, with "Let's Have Another Party" in 1954.
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