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Winifred Atwell - colour painted studio shot
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Title:
Winifred Atwell - colour painted studio shot
NFSA ID
353519
A colour-painted studio shot of Winifred Atwell.
Throughout her prolific music career Winifred broke numerous records; she was the first black person to have a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and is currently the only female instrumentalist to have achieved this. Winifred was also the first female pianist awarded the Royal Academy of Music’s highest grading for musicianship.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.