Profiles: Heroes, Role Models and Pioneers of Trinidad and Tobago - by Nasser Khan

79 to perform at World Youth Day Festival Week in Toronto. In 1991 she was awarded the Humming Bird Medal Gold, in 1998 the Humming Bird Medal Gold again, this time to the Love Movement and in 2002 the Love Movement received an Icon of the Nation award. LENNOX (LEN) “BOOGSIE” SHARPE (1953- ) A noted arranger who is a five time Panorama winner, Boogsie has established his genius over the past forty years with his arrangements for many calypsonians, vocalists and steelbands in T&T and the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. He has been composer/ arranger-in-residence at Phase II Pan Groove since 1972. Sharpe does not read or write music but he is able to conceive elaborate compositions and arrangements and teaches them to the players note by note, phrase by phrase. He is also an accomplished piano player, described as ‘the Mozart of pan’ by Wynton Marsalis, whose St. James home is a place of his many treasured memories. It was as a youngster, at the very location (Benares Street, St. James) where he grew up and still resides, that he first played the pan. He rates winning the world steelband music festival in 2000 with his own composition and arrangement In the Rainforest and being honoured by UTT in 2007 as among his greatest achievements. • 1987 Chaconia Medal Silver • 2009 Humming Bird Medal Gold RAS SHORTY I (GARFIELD BLACKMAN) (1941-2000) G arfield Blackman began his career as Lord Shorty in the early 1960s. His songs Indrani and Endless Vibrations are widely believed to be