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   PAN PEOPLE

  No reference to the steelbands of Trinidad and Tobago could hold any weight, without some reference to the extraordinarily dedicated and talented men and women, who have in the past, or endeavour today, to make it all happen. These are some of the pioneers; steel drum makers, tuners, players, arrangers or composers who invented the steel drums, or captained bands, or created new sounds, or bent the rules, of not only music, to issue in this new dimension of musical experience. These are the people of the drums of steel, the poets of the soul in iron; the fathers and the mothers of steelband legend; the children and the heralds of our future “pan”. These are our Pan People.
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  Aldwyn Albino Pan Player, Arranger Profile Aldwyn Albino. Pan Player, Arranger
  Martin Albino Pan Player, Arranger Profile Martin Albino. Pan Player, Arranger
  Sterling Betancourt Pan Player, Arranger, Pan Tuner Profile Sterling Betancourt. Pan Player, Arranger, Pan Tuner
  Pat Bishop Arranger, Composer, Ethnomusicologist Profile Pat Bishop. Arranger, Composer, Ethnomusicologist
  Clive Bradley Guitar & Keyboard Player, Arranger, Composer Profile Clive Bradley - Guitar and Keyboard Player, Arranger, Composer
  Earl Brooks Pan Player, Arranger, Composer Profile Earl Brooks Sr. Pan Player, Arranger, Composer
  Philmore "Boots" Davidson Pan Player, Arranger Profile Philmore Boots Davidson. Pan Player, Arranger
  Chantal Esdelle Pan Player, Arranger Profile Chantal Esdelle. Pan Player, Arranger
  Ruben "Kori" Fraser Iron Man: Iron Player Profile Iron Man Ruben Kori Frazer
  George "Sonny" Goddard Pan Player, President NATTS, Campaigner, Author Profile George Goddard
  Sydney Gollop Pan Player, 1st President SA, Campaigner Profile Sydney Gollop
  Winston Graham Pan Player, Arranger Profile Winston Graham. Pan Player, Arranger
  Robert Greenidge Pan Player, Arranger, Composer Profile Robert Greenidge. Pan Player, Arranger, Composer
  Brian "Bean" Griffith Pan Player, Arranger Profile Brian Bean Griffith. Pan Player, Arranger
  Orman "Patsy" Haynes Pan Player, Composer Profile Orman Patsy Haynes. Pan Player, Composer
  Harold Headley Pan Player, Arranger Profile Harold Headley. Pan Player, Arranger
  Kenny Heart Pan Player Profile Kenny Heart. Pan Player
  Hazel Henley Pioneer Pan Player Profile Hazel Henley. One of the early pan women and pioneers
  Ray Holman Pan Player, Arranger, Composer Profile Ray Holman. Pan Player, Arranger, Composer
  Cecil Hume The Maestro: Pan Player, Arranger, Composer, Pan Tuner Profile Cecil The Maestro Hume. Pan Player, Arranger, Composer, Pan Tuner
  Alston Jack Pan Player, Arranger, Composer Profile Alston Jack
  Daisy James-McLean Pioneer Pan Player Profile Pioneer Daisy James-McLean. One of the first women pannists
  Aldwyn "Madman" Jordan Pan Player, Pan Tuner Profile Aldwyn Madman Jordan. Pan Player, Pan Tuner
  Neville Jules Pan Player, Arranger, Composer, Pan Tuner Profile Neville Jules. Pan Player, Arranger, Composer, Pan Tuner
  Kendall Lewis Pan Player, Arranger Profile Kendall Lewis. Pan Player, Arranger
  Milton "Squeeze" Lyons Pan Player, Arranger, Pan Tuner Profile Milton Squeeze Lyons. Pan Player, Arranger, Pan Tuner
  Vernon "Birdie" Mannette Pan Player, Pan Tuner Profile Vernon Birdie Mannette
  Lennox "Bobby" Mohammed Pan Player, Arranger Profile Lennox Bobby Mohammed. Pan Player, Arranger
  Othello Molineaux Pan Player, Arranger, Composer Profile Othello Molineaux. Steel drum Player, Arranger, Composer
  Ken "Professor" Philmore Pan Player, Arranger, Composer Profile Ken Professor Philmore
  Curtis Pierre Pan Player, Arranger Profile Curtis Pierre. Pan Player, Arranger
  Junior Pouchet Pan Player, Arranger Profile Junior Pouchet. Pan Player, Arranger
  Jeannine "J9" Remy Pan Player, Percussionist, Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Ethnomusicologist, Lecturer of Music, Dr Profile Dr Jeannine J9 Remy. Pan Player, Percussionist, Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Ethnomusicologist, Lecturer of Music, Dr
  Earl Rodney Pan Player, Arranger, Composer Profile Earl Rodney. Pan Player, Arranger, Composer
  Carlos Rose Pan Player Profile Carlos. Rose Pan Player
  Jit Samaroo Pan Player, Arranger, Composer Profile Jit Samaroo
  Jonathan Scott Pan Player Profile Jonathan Scott. Pan Player
  Winston "Spree" Simon Pan Player, Pan Tuner, Band Leader, Pioneer Profile Winston Spree Simon. Inventor of the Steel Pan. Pan Player, Pan Tuner, Band Leader, Pioneer
  Len "Boogsie" Sharpe Pan Player, Arranger, Composer Profile Len Boogsie Sharpe. Arranger and Composer
  Ruddy "Two Left" Smith Pan Player, Arranger, Composer Profile Rudy Two-Left Smith. Pan Player, Arranger, Composer
  Bertil St Clair Pan Player Profile Bertil St Clair. Pan Player
  Jim St Rose Pan Player Profile Jim St Rose. Pan Player
  Heloise Steel Pan Player Profile Heloise Steel. Outstanding female pannist
  Theo Stephens Pan Player, Arranger, Pan Tuner Profile Theo Stephens. Pan Player, Arranger, Pan Tuner
  Liam Teague Pan Player, Arranger, Composer Profile Liam Teague. Pan Player, Arranger, Composer
  Sean Thomas Pan Player Profile Sean Thomas. Pan Player
  Attiba Williams Young Pan Player (1996) Profile: Young Attiba Williams
  Emile "Zola" Williams Pan Player, Arranger, Pan Tuner Profile Emile Zola Williams. Pan Player, Arranger, Pan Tuner
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  As dedicated, and no less deserving than these Pan People himself, some his friends, whom he has made it his preserve to document; is Gideon Maxime, a Trinidadian cultural researcher and chronicler. It is through his eyes, with his local nuance, using with his permission extracts from his 1997 book Pan Through the Years (1952 - 1996), that we meet many of the Pan People listed above. Another champion of the Pan is Dr Felix Blake, Orthopaedic surgeon and author of The Trinidad and Tobago Steel Pan: History and Evolution (1995), a definitive and commanding work. No less deserving than Gideon; as close to the Pan People as you can get, his references are invaluable to this site. There shall be others.
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