Celebration of Women
and the
Steelpan Art Form
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -Vanessa Alexandra Headley has been playing the steelpan, the national instrument of her native Trinidad and Tobago since the age of four (4). She placed first in the Caribbean Secondary Examinations Music Exam in 2004, and later received a three-year academic scholarship from the Music Literacy Trust of Trinidad and Tobago and pursued a Bachelor of Arts in the Musical Arts at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, Trinidad.
Now aged twenty-one, Miss Headley has won over twenty-two music festival championships. She has performed on all the instruments of the steelpan family, but her instruments of choice are the Double Seconds and the Extended Seconds (an innovation of Master steelpan builder and tuner Bertrand Kelman).
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I had the privilege of meeting with and spending time with Vanessa and 'Golden Hands" in their scenic, therapeutic, backyard pan site under the wide-spread tree, located in South Trinidad, West Indies.
Extremely humble family -- Vanessa, mom (the founder) and all their young pannists. I was privy to the standard to which they function, in the attempts to ensure the pannist receives the utmost of respect, worldwide.
Through pan, any and everything positive can happen for the young and old, and I have witnessed it through the time I spent at the pan site.
Keep up the good work my sis, and continue spreading the Word of pan!
now, who is going to sign her a $million endorsement having learned of her 'qualifications' and accomplishments all in the name of pan?