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Percy Faith
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Canadian-born American bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor (1908-1976)
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1908-04-07
- Active to
- 1976-02-09
Discography
- Music Until Midnight1954
- The Most Happy Fella1956
- Percy Faith Plays Music From South Pacific1958
- American Serenade1963
- Themes for Young Lovers1963
- More Themes For Young Lovers1964
- Percy Faith Plays Latin Themes For Young Lovers1965
- Themes for the "In" Crowd1966
- Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head1970
- The Beatles Album1970
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 136,015
- Total plays
- 978,512
Tags
Percy Faith (April 7, 1908 – February 9, 1976), was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. After 1940, he moved to Chicago, becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1945. He died in Encino, California, and is interred in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Culver City, California. Faith was a band-leader, orchestrator, and composer best known for his arrangements of standard tunes using lush string sections and female choruses. The latter sometimes sang, most often they just vocalized without words. <a
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Percy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Toronto
- Place of death
- Encino
- Occupation
- bandleader
- Field of work
- music
- Genre
- easy listening
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- Columbia Records
- Image
- Percy Faith, 1908-1976 (cropped).jpg
Show 8 more facts
- date of death
- 1976-02-09
- date of birth
- 1908-04-07
- described at URL
- www.percyfaithpages.org
- Commons category
- Percy Faith
- cause of death
- cancer
- place of burial
- Hillside Memorial Park
- manner of death
- natural causes
- pseudonym
- Peter Mars
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