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Percy Faith

1908 - 1976

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Percy Faith (April 7, 1908 – February 9, 1976) was a Canadian–American bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of instrumental ballads and Christmas standards. He is often credited with popularizing the "easy listening" or "mood music" format. He became a staple of American popular music in the 1950s and continued well into the 1960s. Although his professional orchestra-leading career began at the height of the swing era, he refined and rethought orchestration techniques, including use of large string sections, to soften and fill out the brass-dominated popular music of the 1940s. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Percy Faith is the 1,091st most popular composer (down from 1,010th in 2019), the 337th most popular biography from Canada (down from 266th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, 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 337 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 COMPOSERS In Canada

Among composers 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), and Venetian Snares (1975).

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