David Ross

Pianist, composer, lyricist and musical arranger. Born Columbus, Ohio. Died Los Angeles November 1992, aged 58. He specialised in writing songs and special material for cabaret singers, frequently accompanying them on the piano. He arranged music for the pianists George Shearing and Michael Feinstein and for singers including Julie Wilson, Annette Warren, Courtney Burr and Netii Ross, to whom he was married for six years until their divorce in 1977.