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An 85-year-old man whose piano playing has been viewed hundreds of thousand of times on TikTok has said he is “blown away” by the new-found attention he’s received.
Alan Melinek, from Watford in north-west London, has accrued 25,000 followers on the video sharing social network, with people tuning in to hear his renditions of classical, pop and jazz tunes.
Mr Melinek – who also goes by Piano Grandad – fell in love with the piano from an early age and met his wife Pat in a jazz club in Soho.
After 46 years of marriage, Pat died with ovarian cancer in 2006 – since then, Mr Melinek has been raising money for Cancer Research UK with monthly concerts, but was stopped in his tracks by the coronavirus pandemic.
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4:58 PM April 8, 2021
Christine Howchin (left) will be having her hair shaved off for Cancer Research UK as her sister Pauline (right) was diagnosed with oesophageal and pancreatic cancer.
- Credit: Supplied/Christine Howchin
A woman whose sister is battling cancer will be braving the shave this weekend for “the person I have always looked up to”.
Christine Howchin of Whittlesey will lose her hair for her sister Pauline, who has been fighting oesophageal and pancreatic cancer for around a year.
“I feel sorry for her as her hair always looked nice, so I said if you’re losing your hair, I think I should lose mine,” Christine said.
During this time he held several roles including marketing manager for North Africa and the Middle East. His work allowed him to travel the world and in the mid-1980s he spent time in South Korea and Hong Kong. He also visited the likes of Ottawa, Montreal, California and Australia. Two years after retiring, Mr Waud was offered consultancy work with a company in Gloucestershire. He continued for two years before retiring for good. In his earlier life, Mr Waud, who was born in South Woodford in 1939 and went to school in Barkingside and Buckhurst Hill, had been heavily involved in scouting, having joined in 1950.