Steelpan Music Composer and Panorama Arranger Amrit Samaroo is doing just "PHIne"

Global - Amrit Samaroo was born and raised into a musical family being the son of renowned arranger, Jit Samaroo. He started playing steelpan at the age of six with Samaroo Youth Steel Orchestra which existed for approximately two years. During Amrit’s formative years as a musician he won first place at San Fest and School’s Music Festival in 1992 and 1999 respectively. In addition to having been raised in a musical family, Amrit has received formal musical training having completed an Associate Degree in Performing Arts from COSTAATT and a Bachelor of Arts in Musical Arts from the University of the West Indies..

Although Amrit enjoyed success as a solo musician in his early days, his passion is arranging. He believes his dad inspired him to be an arranger and arranging allows him to express himself more freely through a band. For Trinidad and Tobago Panorama 2011, Amrit had a full quota of bands for which he arranged. The bands are Trinidad Nostalgic (single pan), Nutones (small), Melodians (medium) and Our Boys (large). He arranged two original compositions, Showdown and T.K.O. for Melodians and Our Boys respectively. He was very excited by the prospect of arranging for these bands until Boxing Day 2010 when a calamity, which could only be described as a freak accident, occurred. The resulting X-ray revealed that he had sustained a broken fibula. He immediately knew that his Panorama season was not going to be how he wanted it to be. The management of all the bands were contacted and informed of his misfortune. They were all sympathetic but insisted that the arrangement still had to be done by him one way or another..

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Steelpan Music Composer and Panorama Arranger Amrit Samaroo is doing just "PHIne"

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