Oscar Peterson...

Oscar Peterson

1925 - 2007

Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson has died at the age of 82.

Peterson began playing the piano and trumpet as a young boy under the stern tutelage of his father, Daniel Peterson, a West Indian immigrant who worked as a railway porter. He continued with his piano studies under the watch of his older sister Daisy after tuberculosis damaged his lungs at age six. At 14, Peterson earned his first break, winning the CBC's national amateur contest.

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