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Russ Conway

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Also known as Trevor Herbert Stanford, Trevor Stanford

pianist (1925-2000)

Person · Open Library

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1925
Active to
2000
2008 universal fire victimcountrynashville soundrockabillysinger-songwriter

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Listeners
23,666
Total plays
146,870

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pianoinstrumentalragtime60s50s

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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