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Artist Biography For Percy Faith

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. Faith's Live Orchestra Was A Staple Of The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Live-Music Broadcasts From 1938 To 1940. After Moving To The U.S. Faith Made Many Recordings For Voice Of America. After Working Briefly For Decca Records He Went To Work For Mitch Miller At Columbia Records. There He Turned Out Dozens Of Albums And Provided Arrangements For Many Of The Pop Singers Of The 1950s. The Use Of The Female Chorus Really Became A Percy Faith Signature With His Mid-Late 1960's "Young Lovers" Projects It Was Also Used In His Final Holiday Album "Christmas Is " Released In 1967. Faith's Most Famous And Best-Remembered Recordings Are "Delicado" 1952 "Moulin Rouge" 1953 And "Theme From A Summer Place" 1960 .

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