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Syncopating pianist
Sam Bennie , who became totally blind at the age of seven owing to meningitis, studied the organ, piano, and piano accordion at the School for the Blind at Swiss Cottage before graduating to the Royal Normal College at Norwood.
In April 1938, he won the final of the England and Scotland amateur pianoforte-playing contest over 520 rivals, and in the same month gave his first broadcast, with the Band-waggoners. Bennie runs and conducts his own band of twelve musicians, and has composed his own signature tune, ' I bring you music

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