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Winifred Atwell was born on 27 February 1910 in Tunapuna, Trinidad. She is known for Sunstruck (1972), Pot Black (1969) and The Hagenbeck Story (1971). She was married to Lew Levisohn. She died on 27 February 1983 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.- Composer
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Composer ("I'm Coming Virginia"), author and conductor, educated at Queens Royal College in Trinidad, Fisk University, Northwestern University (medical school), and Mordkin Moser Conservatory in New York, plus private study. He was awarded an honorary Mus. D. from the Caribbean College of Music. He directed traveling theatrical orchestras and was a member of Will Marion Cook's American Syncopated Orchestra. He wrote songs for Rosa Raisa, Schumann-Heink and others. He won the MERRICK award for the greatest contribution of Negro to American music in 1948. His Broadway stage scores include "Hot Rhythm", "Blackberries of 1932" and also "Africana", and he trained and presented singers including Leslie Uggams and Marie Young. Joining ASCAP in 1934, his other popular-song compositions include "Home Beyond the River", "Emaline", "Stop Beating Those Drums", "No Need to Tell Me That You Love Me", "Where Are You Now", "There's a Spirit in My Heart", and "Morning".- Soundtrack
C.L.R. James was born on 4 January 1901 in Tunapuna, St. George, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago. He was married to Selma James, Constance Webb and Juanita Young. He died on 31 May 1989 in Brixton, Lambeth, London, England, UK.