About Piano "C" Red
Lived 1933 – 2013 (aged 79). Piano "C" Red was a songwriter, singer, pianist, composer and musician.
Cecil Fain (September 14, 1933 – June 3, 2013), known professionally as Piano "C" Red was an American Chicago blues and boogie-woogie pianist, singer and composer. Inspired by a spiritual singing mother, he was tutored by a local pianist, Fat Lily, who needed the incentive of bottles of moonshine whiskey. His regular daytime employment inspired his most successful recording, "Cab Driving Man", which he also used as the title of his 1999 album. In 2020 the Killer Blues Headstone Project placed a headstone at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Chicago.
Discography Albums Year Title Record label 1992 Piano "C" Red New Rose Records 1999 Cab Driving Man Boogie On The Boogie
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Who was Piano "C" Red?
musical artist
When was Piano "C" Red born?
Piano "C" Red was born on 14 September 1933.
When did Piano "C" Red die?
Piano "C" Red died on 3 June 2013.
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Piano "C" Red was a songwriter, singer, pianist, composer and musician.
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