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Ellie Mannette
Pan Player, Tuner, Band Leader

Extract: Petrotrin Invaders - The History
http://www.tidco.co.tt/~invaders/history.html

  They gathered in Woodbrook, Port of Spain under a breadfruit tree. The year was 1937. The place was the Mannette family home on Tragarete Road, opposite the Queens Park Oval sporting grounds. Led by Stanley Hunte and Ellie Mannette, they talked about forming a band, a steelband. Like all of the first bands, they could have been described as a 'gang' with all the territoriality and raw pride the name implies. But the neighbourhood boys were going to focus in Music and the Steel Pan, an instrument that was still in its embryonic stage. They decided to call themselves the Oval Boys, after their first Panyard under the stands in the Oval. They collected discarded paint cans, biscuit tins and other pieces of metal. And so it started.

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