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Richard Abel (musician)
Canadian pianist
Richard Abel (born 1955) is a Canadian instrumental musician and pianist.[1] He is one of the best selling Canadian instrumental artists of all time.[2] He has been nominated for a Juno award three times.
Early life
Son of a cab driver, who later became a craftsman, Richard Abel came from a very modest family.[3] The taste for music and piano comes from his mother.
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He began to play by ear as a child,[4] but did not take piano lessons until the age of 14 with nuns.[5][6]
His first experience in front of an audience was playing on Sundays at the Marie-Reine-des-Cœurs church[7] in Montreal, in what was then known as the rhythmic masses (also known as "gogo masses"[8]).
He did this for two years and he says that it was at this same church that he performed his first solo show at the age of 18.
He then took music lessons at the École normale de musique