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Natasha Joseph
Arranger,
producer, steelpan and
music tutor Natasha
Joseph started playing the steelpan at age 15 in 1991 as a student of Malick Secondary Comprehensive School,
Trinidad, and within 3 months she was arranging for the school’s steel orchestra under the mentorship of Mr. Richard Gaskin.
A former member of Panazz Players,
Natasha has been a musical ambassador for Trinidad & Tobago in the USA, Japan, England and the Caribbean doing Jazz Festivals,
concerts and workshops. Her most recent engagements have been a steelpan workshop at W.T. Chipman Middle School in Dover, Delaware;
a jazz concert at the Schwartz Center with vibraphonist Joe Baione, and as a Guest Facilitator at the 2010 FCB Steelpan and Jazz Workshops in October 2010.
Natasha hooked up with long-time Panazz Players bandmate Kareem Brown of Green Room Studios on the
production of this, her first attempt at a composition for Pan. She is looking forward to
again working with Green Room in the near future.
Franklyn Olliviera |
Franklyn Olliviera
- who also wrote the lyrics for
Pan Army, Phase
II Pan Groove’s 2010 Panorama selection, is a good friend of Natasha
Joseph. Upon
hearing that she had
composed a song,
Olliviera came
together with Joseph
to co-write the
lyrics of “Something
Different.”
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