Percy Faith has been played on NTS in shows including Donna Leake, featured first on 21 August 2018. Songs played include Moon Over Miami, Yellow Days and First Light.

Percy Faith (April 7, 1908 – February 9, 1976), was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. After 1940, he moved to Chicago, becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1945. He died in Encino, California, and is interred in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Culver City, California.

Faith was a band-leader, orchestrator, and composer best known for his arrangements of standard tunes using lush string sections and female choruses. The latter sometimes sang, most often they just vocalized without…