Frank Mills - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	27-June-1942
Place of Birth	Toronto (Ontario, Canada)
Nationality	Canada
Also know as	Mills, Frank
Profession	Pianist, Musician
Frank Mills, is a Canadian pianist and recording artist, best known for his solo instrumental hit "Music Box Dancer". Mills grew up in Verdun, Quebec and started playing piano at the age of three. He attended McGill University for five years. He began with Engineering, switched to a B.Sc. programme, then Arts and finally studied in the Department of Music. He entertained his fraternity brothers with songs from ragtime to a new artist Bob Dylan. The fraternity piano had thumbtacks on every hammer and produced a unique sound. In the late 1960s Mills became a member of The Bells. He left the band in 1971 just before it had international success with the single "Stay Awhile." Mills worked as a pianist for CBC-TV and recorded his first solo album, Seven Of My Songs, which produced the hit single "Love Me, Love Me Love". The song made its debut on the Canadian charts in October 1971 and early the following year peaked at number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 8 on Billboardâ€²s Easy Listening chart His follow-up single, a cover of Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool" made Top 25 in Canada but stalled at number 106 in the U.S.

Awards by Frank Mills

Check all the awards nominated and won by Frank Mills.

1990

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year

1989

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year

1987

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year

1985

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year

1984

Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year

1983

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year

1982

Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year

1981

Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year

Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year

1980

Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year

Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year

Honored for : Peter Piper

Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year	Peter Piper
Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year

1979

Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance	Music Box Dancer
Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year
Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year	Music Box Dancer

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