Winifred Atwell | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Una Winifred Atwell |
| Born | 27 February 1914[1] or 27 April 1910 Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Died | 28 February 1983 Sydney, Australia |
| Genres | Boogie-woogie, ragtime, classical |
| Instrument | Piano |
| Years active | 1946–1980 |
| Labels | Decca Records, Philips Records, RCA Records, CBS Records |
Una Winifred Atwell (27 February or 27 April[2] 1910 or 1914[nb 1] – 28 February 1983) was a British pianist, born in the colony 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.[3] 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, and as of 2023, remains the only female instrumentalist to do so.[4][5][6]
- ^ "Winifred Atwell Biography & Awards". Billboard.com. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
- ^ "Atwell, (Una) Winifred (c. 1913–1983)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58882. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Atwell, Winifred", in David Dabydeen, John Gilmore, Cecily Jones (eds), The Oxford Companion to Black British History, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. 33.
- ^ Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 17. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
- ^ George McKay, 2014. '"Winifred Atwell and her 'other' piano: 16 hit singles and a 'blanket of silence', sounding the limits of jazz'". Black British Jazz: Routes, Ownership and Performance.
- ^ "Five UK number one hits that you can't sing along to". BBC Bitesize. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
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