A blue plaque honouring pianist Winifred Atwell, the first black artist to have a UK number one hit song, has been unveiled on her former London home. Atwell, who was born in Trinidad in 1914, moved ...

Winifred Atwell was a gifted pianist, born in Trinidad, who came to Britain to study classical music at the Royal Academy of Music in 1946. By the early 1950s, a combination of talent and a husband ...

An English Heritage blue plaque is put up in Brixton, south London, for Winifred Atwell, the first Black artist to have a number one in the UK singles chart. The Trinidad-born ragtime pianist released ...

In the early going of his magnificent new memoir Me (out Tuesday), Elton John rhapsodizes about a piano player named Winifred Atwell, “a big, immensely jolly Trinidadian lady” who came to popularity ...