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Also known as Trevor Herbert Stanford, Trevor Stanford

pianist (1925-2000)

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1925
Active to
2000
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Total plays
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Conway was born in Bristol, England. He had no formal piano training and spent his early adulthood in the Navy. Conway was talent-spotted while playing in a London club, signed to Columbia Records and spent the mid 1950s providing backing for their artists including Gracie Fields and Joan Regan. However, the commercial potential of Conway's unique percussive piano style (which he attributed to a missing fingertip he had severed many years previously with a bread slicer) was too great for him to

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
Conway
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Bristol
Place of death
Eastbourne
Occupation
songwriter
Languages spoken
English language
Instrument
piano
Image
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date of birth
1925-09-02
date of death
2000-11-16
Commons category
Russ Conway (pianist)
start of work period
1955-00-00
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