Percy Faith

Percy Faith was a Canadian–American bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of instrumental ballads and Christmas standards. He is often credited with popularizing the "easy listening" or "mood music" format. He became a staple of American popular music in the 1950s and continued well into the 1960s. Although his professional orchestra-leading career began at the height of the swing era, he refined and rethought orchestration techniques, including use of large string sections, to soften and fill out the brass-dominated popular music of the 1940s.

7 April 1908

Born on the same birth date (7 April 1908): Peter Zaremba (athlete)

Born on the same birth day (7 April): Aaron Lohr • Andrew Hampsten • Bodo Illgner • Davidson Brothers • Dimitrij Rupel • Domenico Dragonetti • Fay Moulton • Francis Xavier • Frederick Carl Frieseke • Marjory Stoneman Douglas • Ronde Barber • Steve Graves

Born in the same month (April 1908): Abraham Maslow • Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1908) • Buddy Ebsen • Frank Robert Miller • Harlow Rothert • Herbert von Karajan • Ida Pollock • Inga Gentzel • Irena Eichlerówna • Jack Fingleton • Jack Williamson • Józef Gosławski (sculptor) • Kurt Neumann (director) • Leo Rosten • Marceline Day • Oskar Schindler • Peter Zaremba (athlete) • Ray Ventura • Robert Lee Scott Jr.