Los Angeles Caribbean Band 5
The leader of this Los Angeles Caribbean Band was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in Boca Raton, Florida. He followed his passion for music to Wichita State University in Kansas, where he earned a Bachelor of Music Education (BME) degree under the guidance of Dr. Joseph C. Combs.
Los Angeles Caribbean Band leader
Upon graduating, he immediately began a two-year journey traveling across the country and abroad where he performed for three months with Potential Symphony, a 120-member steel band, for the Panorama National Steel Band Competition on the Island of Trinidad, West Indies. Life on the road eventually directed him back to Wichita where he started his own business, he became the director of the WSU Steel Pan Orchestra, traveled within the Midwest as an accredited artist with the Missouri Arts Council and Arts Partners, and performed with Afinké Machine.
Los Angeles Caribbean Band relocation
In 2002, the leader of this Los Angeles Caribbean Band relocated to Los Angeles and immediately began spreading the word of pan, one person at a time. He has since performed and recorded with an array of amazing artists such as Scott Weiland, Cyndi Lauper, Cipes & the People, John Ballinger, The Shival Experience, the Survivor House Band (CBS reality show), Steel and Strings, to name a few. Currently, he resides in Los Angeles where he is working as a producer, composer, and most notably with his band, who is signed with Citation Records.
Selection of Recordings that features him on Steel Drums and/or Percussion
Speak To Me – Pandora’s Box (1994)
Blue Earth – Trouble Creek (1997)
Afinké Machine – Afinké Machine (1999)
Candlelight Christmas – Douglas Express (1999)
River of Life – Reach for the Sky (2000)
Explorations of Sound – Soundtrack for Exploration Place Science Center (2000)
How ‘Bout This - Afinké Machine (2002)
Conscious Revolution – Cipes and the People (2007)
Happy in Galoshes – Scott Weiland (2008)
Dead Man’s Bones (title of album TBA) (2009)
Blind Boris (title of album TBD) (2009)