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Born on October 31, Shivonne Liesl-Anne
Churche is also known
to the music world
as
Lil’ Bitts.
Named
after Liesl the
oldest girl in the
Sound of Music, her
mother Emerita
Sambrano-Churche
knew that she was
going to be a
singer.
In
the early years she
showed early signs
that she was going
to be a performer.
She attended Sacred
Heart Girls’ RC
School, Woodbrook
Government Secondary
and Trinizuela
College during that
period she
participated in many
competitions calypso
and soca
competitions where
she won and also was
a finalist.
At 17 Lil’ Bitts made the conversion from calypso to soca
when she performed in the Junior Soca Monarch Competition. From
that point the young
artist knew she wanted to
perform full time.
In
2004 she made her
first break through
performing a song
called “In My
Country” featuring
Bunji Garlin. As the
years went by she
added more hits to
her name, like “Crush”
featuring Sean Caruth,
and “Bump,” one of her
biggest songs to
date - both of which
were written by Kernal Roberts.
“Crush” enabled Lil’
Bitts to make her first
debut into the
International Groovy
Monarch Competition.
It was followed by “Esta
Fiesta” written by
Lil’ Bitts.
Later on, she added “Hold Meh” and “Careful” both written by her brother Sherrard Churche who is also her manager. “Careful” enabled her to make it to the International Groovy Soca Monarch Competition once again.
Currently she is
doing her Associate
Degree in Performing
Arts at COSTAATT.
She has performed in
Guyana, Grenada, St.
Vincent, Toronto,
New York, Miami,
Bermuda, Jamaica,
the Bahamas and Antigua.
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Composer and
panist Talib
Robinson |
Talib Robinson, composer, producer, arranger, clinician, adjudicator and performer, has been an active member of the pan fraternity for over 18 years. Talib studied classical music theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music and Northern Illinois University under the direct tutelage of pan virtuoso Liam Teague, Pan Trinbago’s “pan legend” award recipient Clifford Alexis.
He has performed at numerous events, concerts and festivals throughout the western hemisphere with some of the pan community’s elite members such as Len “Boogsie” Sharpe, Ray Holman and the late great Clive Bradley. He has also arranged and performed in conventional brass bands behind calypsonians Denyse Plummer, Black Stalin, The Baron and David Rudder, Iwer George. In March of 2006 he had the privilege of performing with the Chicago Sinfonietta at the legendary Orchestra Hall in Chicago, IL under the baton of Maestro Paul Freeman.
Talib is anxious to continue stretching the boundaries of this great instrument and assisting in it’s universal appeal and acceptance on a global stage where it belongs.
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