ArtistInfo

Gwyn Jay Allen

voc, GB, Loughborough
Musician of Jazz

Gwyn Jay Allen is a British jazz musician, actor and Interior Architect.He was born in Loughborough to Sierra Leonese immigrants, and has lived 18 years in Freetown before moving back to England to study. Early in his career he played the guitar and sang at Tube stations. In 1992 he landed a job at the London Hilton on Park Lane, playing percussion and singing. In 1993 he had a residency at the prestigious Dorchester Hotel piano lounge. In 1997 he was one of the finalists on the ITV talent show Stars in Their Eyes, where he impersonated Louis Armstrong singing We Have All the Time in the World. Allen has toured with the groups The Sound of the Platters and The Jazz Quarterbacks. He has also played the part of Cab Calloway in a 1996/1997 West End production of the musical The Blues Brothers

Genres

• Jazz
• R&B/Soul
• Latin
• Electronic
• Folk

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