Billy Ocean ON TOUR WITH EBONY
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"I've been doing that since I was in Trinidad as a little kid. One of the hurtful things when I came to England was that I had to leave my (steel drum) pan and my dog behind." ... Billy Ocean
Ebony St
DeKalb, Ill. — Less than a minute after Robert Chappell first heard steelpannist Liam Teague’s “hands like lightning,” the Northern Illinois University professor knew what he must do.
“When Liam first came to NIU in January of 1993, everybody obviou
Africa Panorama 2009! The Nigerian Forces Panorama will come up between 20th and 23rd of November 2009. There will be nine organisations participating but we will have more than nine bands, since some organisations will present multiple bands from va
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