| 词条 | Peggy O'Keefe |
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| image = Peggy_O'Keefe_at_the_Showbiz_Ball_1994.jpg | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = Margaret Patricia O'Keefe | alias = | birth_date = April 7, 1928 | birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|3|31|1928|4|7|mf=y}} | death_place = Glasgow, Scotland, UK | origin = | instrument = Piano, Vocals | genre = Jazz, Easy Listening, Classical | occupation = Pianist, bandleader, television and radio presenter | years_active = 1949-2004 | label = | associated_acts = The Peggy O'Keefe Trio, BBC Scottish Radio Orchestra, Moira Anderson, Cleo Laine, Marion Montgomery, Mark Murphy, Ray Brown | website = }} Peggy O'Keefe (7 April 1928 - 31 March 2019) was an Australian-British pianist, bandleader, and television and radio presenter. LifeMargaret Patricia O'Keefe was born in Fernlea Private Hospital, Preston (a suburb of Melbourne, Australia), and raised on a farm in Wangoom, near the city of Warrnambool, approximately 150 miles (250 kilometers) from Melbourne. After a good academic and musical education at a convent boarding school (St Ann's College), she attended the Melbourne University Music Conservatorium, where she studied violin, piano, singing and harp. Whilst there she was a classmate of Douglas Gamley. CareerBefore departing Melbourne in 1960, Peggy O'Keefe had already built up a solid reputation as a pianist, appearing on radio broadcasts and working as accompanist to artistes in nightclub cabaret, including a young Barry Humphries, Juanita Hall and a one-off, impromptu performance by Frank Sinatra. After her arrival in London, she picked up where she had left off in Australia. She had not been in London long before she was playing in jazz trios and quartets in establishments such as The Stork Rooms (where her "tea break" cover pianist was a young Dudley Moore), Satire Rooms and The Riverside Club. It was during this spell that she played for - and rubbed shoulders with - artistes like Sammy Davis, Jr., Tony Bennett, Dame Cleo Laine, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Marian Montgomery, and Helen Merrill, while remewing an old and rather special friendship with legendary bass player, Ray Brown. Always modest and self-effacing, she declined to appear at Ronnie Scott's with Cleo Laine on several occasions, and also to appear as a supporting act for Oscar Peterson, who invited her to open his London concert and then perform a two-piano number with him. She declined on the grounds of her not being a "real jazz musician." Laine and Peterson both disagreed, but were unable to convince her. In 1962 she signed a contract with the Reo Stakis hotel empire and travelled to Glasgow to commence her residency for six months in the Chevalier Casino. That six months eventually became six years, and during this time she presented many series of live music programmes from the casino with guests from the aforementioned list of stars and others, such as Dick Haymes and Mark Murphy. At this time, Peggy had also been discovered by BBC and Scottish Television and she went on to present a long list of music programmes both on television and radio right through until the 1990s. She was undoubtedly one of the busiest pianists used by the BBC and STV, since - as well as her own programmes on television and radio - she was acting as a staff pianist at both stations, accompanying auditions, recitals and broadcasts, as well as playing piano within most of the BBC's ensembles - from jazz trios, through chamber groups and big bands to the BBC Radio Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. In the later years of her career - after the demise of in-house musicians and music departments in broadcasting, Peggy kept working in theatre, recital and concert as an accompanist to artistes like Moira Anderson and Kenneth McKellar, as well as keeping her jazz trio going and being involved playing piano and celeste for light music and film music programmes by larger orchestras, such as the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Gordon Cree Concert Orchestra. Personal lifePeggy married briefly in Australia, but on the breakdown of the marriage in 1960, she travelled to London, and has remained a British citizen ever since. In 1971 she met and married a second husband - a Swedish businessman with whom she had two sons. The marriage ended in 1979. She is the mother of techno DJ, Lars Sandberg, better known to techno audiences as Funk d'Void. Former stepmother (via her second marriage) of international jazz pianist and Acid Jazz recording artist, Ulf Sandberg. Retirement and Later YearsPeggy O'Keefe continued to work leading her trio for corporate functions, as a fixture at Sunday lunch in Gleneagles Hotel and as accompanist to Scottish entertainers (most notably Peter Morrison, Anne Lorne Gillies and Gordon Cree.) Declining health following an unsuccessful knee replacement in 2004 saw an end to her professional career. DeathPeggy O'Keefe died peacefully in a Glasgow nursing home on 31st March 2019, exactly one week before her 91st birthday, following several years of declining health. External links
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