My early music history

My 1st stage performance began at the age of four in the Caribbean Island of

Dominica and that was the start of my musical journey. Music became a discipline in our family life, enforce upon us by our grandfather who was the district church organist. My grandfather had sixteen children and over seventy grandchildren. At least 30% of his generation became involved in music at some point in their lives playing instruments or singing. The guitar was the choice of instrument for many of us since it was more accessible and cheaper to buy. Sometimes we would build our guitars from wood and nylon strings. Like many of my older relatives, I also started to play the guitar at age twelve followed by the piano at age thirteen and have continue until today.

Music Education.

• 1973-1975. Private tutor with an associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music.
• 1980-1982. Kairy School of Music: Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music.
• 1987 -1989, Independent study at Bathurst Heights Secondary School in Toronto, Canada in association with The Royal Conservatory of Music.
• 1989-1992 Embarked upon a Music Degree at York University Toronto.

Work and travel experiences as a musician.
1975-1977, traveled to Guadeloupe in the French West Indies to play with a group. The experience was quite rewarding and one that I will always cherish always.

1977-1981, played with many calypso artist including, "The Mighty Sparrow", "The Mighty Arrow" "Short Shirt", The Baron, Super Blue and many others. During that time, I traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean including Trinidad, Antigua, Barbados, St Lucia, St Croix, St Thomas, Martinique, St Marteen and many more.

The accompanying groups during those years were "The Dominica Swinginstars" and "Emphasis Band", and a few make band all based in Dominica.

1983-1996 I traveled across Canada to cities such British Columbia, Manitoba, Quebec, Saskatoon and Ontario, with groups like,” Explosion Band”,” High energy Band" "Steady Vibes Band" and "Stand firm Group". We accompanied several local and international Reggae and Calypso artist such as Errol Blackwood, Ellsworth James, The Baron, Lazo, The Mighty Mistics and many more. I would just say here that my Grandfather's name was Steady and all the members of Steady Vibes band at that time were his grandchildren so the name waw actually created after by him.

1996-1998 I toured with the "Calabash band" and "Gorey band" to provide accompaniment for reggae artists such as Gregory Isaacs, Judy Mowat, Sanchez, Nasio Fontain, Yami Bolo, Glen Washington, Sister Carol Sanchez, Delroy Wilson and many more. Working with those artist gave me the opportunity to travel to many U.S cities including the Hawaiian Islands, California, Colorado, New York, Washington D.C. Seattle Washington, New Jersey, Florida and more.

Compact Disc and record accomplishments.
1997-2000, I conducted, and produced several recordings for numerous artists in

Toronto Canada. They include The Mighty Mystics, "The way I Feel", Pluggy Satchmo's, "Porridge", La Rock's and "Don't Drink and Drive", not to mention the countless number of guitar and keyboard tracks that I provided for so many individual artist projects. I migrated to Hartford from Toronto, Canada in 2000 and embarked upon music as a producing career. I have since then produced several albums as well as individual tracks for a variety of artists. I am also the Owner of a Recording Studio called Paco Records. So far, we have done several albums for Paco Records, (our record label) as well as other individual projects.

Albums recorded at Paco Records are:

Paco Christmas Reggae CD - 10 songs

The Inspiration Sisters Gospel Album - 8 songs

The "Webber Sisters" Reggae gospel Album" - 16 songs

Carolyn Adams Caribbean "Gospel Album" - 8 songs

Burnette Channer's "Various Artists Album" -12 songs

Tyron Taylor "Fire" Album - 10 songs

Lloyd Graves Gospel CD - 10 songs

Norris William Reggae Album "One Man Pickney" - 10 songs

Tronada "Why I come back" Calypso Album - 8 songs

"The Fingees" Reggae Album -13 songs

Eden John "Going Home" Calypso Album -10 songs

Amsu Matti folk album - 8 songs

Linford John "Brown Eyes", "Complete Love" - 12 songs

Free Joseph's instrumental flute album - 12 songs

I also Co/produce two tracks on Nasio Fontain's "Living in the positive" album entitled 'No love' and 'Black and Comely'.

Jahlee "Simple Sweet and Uncomplicated 13 song album

King Shakey, "The Metamorphosis"

Kathlene Clark 10 song gospel album

There is a large collection of singles, which will be posted at a later date.

The Imergency Band

The Emergency Band is the name that is used to accompany any or all of the artists mentioned above. We have done significantly well in and around the Connecticut area. The musicians are very dedicated to this group and are looking for every opportunity to showcase our musical talents. We are looking forward to working with many people as possible and we hope that promoters, engineer, record companies and people in the music industry find us a pleasant joy to work with as well. We are in the process of putting together a tour that would bring all or some of these talented artists to the world wherever and whenever it is possible to do so.