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Percy Faith

1908 - 1976

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Percy Faith (Toronto, 7 aprile 1908 – Los Angeles, 9 febbraio 1976) è stato un musicista, direttore d'orchestra e compositore canadese naturalizzato statunitense. Fu tra i principali esponenti del genere easy listening tra gli anni cinquanta e sessanta: insieme all'orchestra di cui era il bandleader, pubblicò oltre un'ottantina di album. Degne di nota, sono le sue versioni di brani quali Delicado (1952) che raggiunse la prima posizione nella Billboard Hot 100, The Song from Moulin Rouge con Felicia Sanders (1953) (prima posizione negli Stati Uniti per dieci settimane) e Theme from a Summer Place (1960 che raggiunse la prima posizione nella Billboard Hot 100 per nove settimane e in Italia per 13 settimane (Scandalo al sole) e la seconda posizione nel Regno Unito, Grammy Award nel 1961), oltre che di numerosi canti natalizi. Fu anche arrangiatore di numerosi successi interpretati da cantanti quali Tony Bennett, Doris Day, Burl Ives, Johnny Mathis, Sarah Vaughan. Leggi di più su Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Percy Faith is the 1,091st most popular compositore (down from 1,010th in 2024), the 336th most popular biography from Canada (down from 265th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Compositore.

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Among Compositores

Among compositores, Percy Faith ranks 1,091 out of 1,451. Before her are Tristan Murail, Paul Taffanel, Philippe Verdelot, Henri Pousseur, Valeri Brainin, and Simeon ten Holt. After her are William Lawes, Patrick Doyle, Toivo Kuula, Johann Nicolaus Bach, Felice Anerio, and Jānis Ivanovs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Percy Faith ranks 245. Before her are Roger Beaufrand, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Louis Hostin, George Pal, Kenji Miyamoto, and Hugo Distler. After her are Aleksander Ford, Gotthard Handrick, Louis Jordan, George Simpson, Renzo Rossellini, and Vladimir Kotelnikov. Among people deceased in 1976, Percy Faith ranks 172. Before her are Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Veikko Huhtanen, Hamit Kaplan, Lily Pons, Edith Evans, and Walter Piston. After her are Mark Tobey, Carlos Fonseca, Alfred Landé, Bertha Lutz, Nikoloz Muskhelishvili, and Milena Rudnytska.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Percy Faith ranks 336 out of 1,622. Before her are Paul Bley (1932), Jacques Plante (1929), Alexander Knox (1907), Natasha Henstridge (1974), Kenneth E. Iverson (1920), and Gérald Lacroix (1957). After her are Sunny Leone (1981), Gordon R. Dickson (1923), Susan Clark (1943), Louise Penny (1958), Gaëtan Dugas (1952), and Pom Klementieff (1986).

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Among Compositores In Canada

Among compositores born in Canada, Percy Faith ranks 3. Before her are Howard Shore (1946), and R. Murray Schafer (1933). After her are Mychael Danna (1958), Claude Vivier (1948), Christophe Beck (1972), Erik Mongrain (1980), Venetian Snares (1975), and Trevor Morris (1970).

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