If you like, go ahead and tell your fellow WST Ning members about yourself here
Leeandro Noray is a young "born and raised Tobagonian" with a big appetite for pan music. He first got involved in the music business at the age of 8. He played in his first panorama with the West Side steel orchestra and two years later became a member of the Our Boys Steel orchestra {TOBAGO} and that is where everything took off for him as an arranger.
In 2005 He arranged a Stevie wonder composition for the National Junior Music Festival Ensemble category with Our Boys Youths and they placed second nationally, that year he also did all the songs for the band's carnival road competitions and they won every category.
In 2007 he entered in the baker's scouting for talent competition and placed 3rd out of just about 60 contestants, he also went to New York to participate in the panorama competition and got very good comments about his musical ability.
In 2010, while back in new york for the panorama he was interviewed by a local TV station in one of the panyards.
In the interview, he said
"I have been told I have a very smooth touch on the instrument that most don't and that's what gives me the edge on the competition, every where I go my ability to quickly learn and play the instrument has attracted allot of attention especially from music greats like: Len 'boogsie' Sharpe,Clive Bradley,Duvone Stewart,Seion Gomez,Professor Ken Philmore,Earl Brooks,Liam Teague,Brian 'Bean' Griffith to name a few". All whom he states he still holds a good relation with.
The following year he was approached by his former high school (SIGNAL HILL SECONDARY) to be the school's steelband panorama arranger, he accepted and remained there till 2012.
For the 2013 panorama season he teamed up with his longtime friend Nuton "Skilit" James to arrange the panorama song for his new band "Uptown Fascinators" a dream he "Skilit" had for years.
