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Winifred Atwell

pianist

Trinidad and Tobago • 1914-02-27 – 1983-02-28

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Biography

Una Winifred Atwell (27 February or 27 April 1910 or 1914 – 28 February 1983) 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, and as of 2023, remains the only female instrumentalist to do so.

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Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Credited work

239 releases · 62 albums · active 1952–2023

  • Performance · 420
  • Other credits · 1

Studios: Abbey Road Studios · Royal Albert Hall · The Gorge Amphitheatre · BBC

Frequent collaborators

  • Various
  • Winifred Atwell And Her Other Piano
  • Keith Emerson
  • Claude Bolling
  • Winifred Atwell And Her Piano
  • Christian Siegmann
  • Arvid Sundin & Stig Holm
  • Grieg

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