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Daisy Sweeney, Teacher of Oscar Peterson and Oliver Jones, Dies at 97

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I had never heard of her, but Daisy Sweeney was the older sister of Oscar Peterson and his and Oliver Jones's piano teacher and a pillar of Montreal's Black community She has died at 97.

She put herself through McGill University on her maid's salary and taught innumerable piano students: http://globalnews.ca/news/3669641/daisy-sweeney-piano-teacher-to-jazz-greats-dies-at-97/ .

In her "spare time" she co-founded the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir.
 
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