This past year was great for singer Pharrell Williams. His song "Happy" secured him Grammy nominations for Best Music Video and Best Pop Solo Performance.
Despite Pharrell's ubiquity, "Happy" made $2,700 in publisher and songwriter royalties from 43
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Switzerland - Born in San Fernando, in the twin islands of Trinidad and Tobago in 1966, Junior began playing the steelpan at the very early age of eight (8). Coming from a very musical family Junior was very eager to follow in the footsteps |
The intellectual property (IP) issues that have plagued the steelpan, a musical instrument created from discarded metal oil barrels by impoverished musicians, strike at th
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - With profits at Scotiabank T&T staying healthy, the steelband movement can look forward to bank re-investing in their cultural efforts, its managing director Anya Schnoor said.
The Scotiabank Fo
Read more…USSA’s Pan For Christmas at Prospect Heights High School is the Cure
Brooklyn, NY - There was indeed a Grinch sighting - armed and ready he was to steal Christmas. And, yes, he entered the arena all huffy, puffy and yucky, but he never saw what hit
When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of Wendell "Dillon" Desouza of Panache Steel Orchestra .
By Dan Levine
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Apple Inc won an antitrust trial on Tuesday when a U.S. jury decided the company did not act improperly when it restricted music purchases for iPod users to Apple's iTunes digital store.
The verdict was
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Walk the halls at the University of Minnesota School of Music and you're likely to catch a bit of oboe, a brass quintet or even a symphony orchestra.
Then you may hear something you didn't expect — sounds that seem better suited to a sun-dre
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Brooklyn, NY - There is nothing like the CASYM (Caribbean American Sports and Cultural Youth Movement, Inc.) annual holiday show to remind you that it’s getting close to Christmas. And the tradition continues. For years now the CASYM Christ |
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Trinidad and Tobago's music industry is used to controversial lyrics in its annual crop of new soca (soul of calypso) and calypso songs for carnival.
But in the run-up
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HE HAS been the driving force in developing the renowned TLA Steel Band.
And now, Lee Nelson, head of music at The Littlehampton Academy who first formed the group, has received a top gong of his own.
He was presented with the prestigious Ezekiel ‘Bi
Read more…When Josh Copp moved to 248 McKibbin Street, he joined what the Times called "an instant artistic fraternity that is all but extinct in New York." That same 2008 profile made 248 briefly famous as a post-graduate animal house where residents partied
Read more…The new chairman of the National Carnival Commission (NCC) is Lorraine Pouchet.
Pouchet replaces former chairman Allison Demas, who opted not to renew her contract last month.
Pouchet is a deputy political leader of the Congress of the People (COP) a
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to Champion arranger, songwriter, recording artist and performer Pelham Goddard.
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London, UK- On a chilly winter evening, the British Association of Steelbands (BAS) hosted their 16th annual awards at the Holiday Inn, in Bloomsbury, London on Saturday 6th December 2014. The warm Caribbean culture that this event generates ce |
Given the historical and recent friction between NYPD and the steelbands of Brooklyn for simply gathering for band practice and playing music over the years, the latest outcome from the Eric Garner case is very, very troubling. Moreover, one cannot
Global - “And Great Showers of Tears Came Down,” a short film produced and directed by award-winning “MasMan” filmmaker Dalton Narine, was selected by Creative Arts Film Festival, an online platform that is currently showcasing films of merit through
In this Brooklyn Steel Orchestra performance "Pan in Motion" - featuring Rizzo Gun (rapper), the orchestra address some serious issues that has now exploded across the American landscape.
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Legendary New York Daily News executive John Campi, who retired from the paper after a storied half-century career, passed away Friday. The newspaper veteran was 75.
Campi — who left the paper just two years ago — died of cardiac arrest at the Hacke
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The director of the new Paddington movie explains how the film's soundtrack came to include classic calypso songs.
As the Paddington film opens this weekend, audiences will be expecting pl
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