NY Daily News
Formed Young Acolytes Symphonic Steel Orchestra
as training ground for music and life
New York, USA - Most parents know that the best way to get people to do something is to tell them not to do it.
Folks who lead countries should know that as well.
So when the rulers in his native Guyana banned the playing of steel pan drums, they unknowing set a young Rudy Bishop on a career path which would see his award winning steel pan orchestras perform in venues around the world and with top musicians, including the legendary Bob Marley.
....“When I was a kid, I could not go near the steel pan,” Bishop said. “The steel pan was banned, the white men who ran the country outlawed it. So there was a stigma on it, so parents did not want youth playing it. Only rogues and bad boys played pan. You could not be seen near a steel pan.”
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