By DONNA TEREK The Detroit News
...Lyndon Sorzano, 43, says the sound of steel drums was everywhere when he was growing up in Trinidad and Tobago. He played in a school band that won a trip to play a music festival in Inverness, Scotland, an experience he says still “feels like yesterday.” For a boy from a small island, meeting kids from all over the world was a real eye-opener. He eventually lived in Scotland, England, France and Japan, touring with his steel drums.
Returning from Japan in 1997, Sorzano went to New Jersey, where most of his family now lives, and joined a steel drum band called Pan Jersey. They were invited to play at the Detroit Festival of the Arts, and that’s where Sorzano met Ralph Taylor.
Taylor invited him to his studio and began a campaign to bring Sorzano to Detroit to teach steel pan. “He kept calling me and calling me,” Sorzano laughed. “He said, ‘I have a group that wants to play.‘ You have to come to Detroit.”...
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