Jazz pianist/organist Neal Creque, the youngest of eight siblings, was born in 1940 in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. His father taught classical piano and wrote poetry. At five, Creque started taking piano lessons; at nine he was working a live radio gig with his father called Creque and Creque. He moved to the States in 1956 and quietly built a solid reputation in the jazz field until his untimely death on December 1, 2000, of kidney cancer. He lived in Olmsted Falls (a suburb of Cleveland), OH.

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