‘Gih Me Some More’

Barry Smith: Meet Barry Smith, 30, Trinidad and Tobago’s latest Soca artiste with a penchant for dancehall and reggae music.  He has been writing and singing his music for the past seventeen years.

He started his musical career in his school days at Pleasantville Senior Secondary and has never looked back. Some of the influences for his music and compositions came from his participation in Best Village competitions, which provided him with the rhythms while playing the drums.  He was also participated in the 2007 season of Synergy Soca Stars.

Barry has teamed up with Dennis Smith, a well-known panist, to produce his first recordings for the 2013 Carnival season. The songs are All Night, a soca jam written by Barry, and the track featured here, Gih Me Some More, written by Dennis Smith.

In his short career as a singer/composer, Barry has written approximately twenty-five songs, with fifteen recorded to date.

There is no limit to this young man’s talent and with his love and dedication to his music; the sky will be the limit.

Dennis Smith was born in Ste Madeleine Village, South Trinidad, and comes from a musical family of seventeen children.  He has been playing the steel pan since the age of eleven and over the years has become an accomplished musician/composer/arranger/producer. He has arranged music for Best Village Groups, Secondary Schools, Panasonic Connection, Hillside Symphony and Pan Elders Steel Orchestra.  In 1993 he was crowned the first soloist winner of the Pan Ramajay Competition.

Dennis is truly a ‘Panman Extraordinaire’ - for the past fifteen years, he has been touring the world entertaining thousands of people as a Pan Musician/Vocalist with The Royal Caribbean and Princess Cruise Lines.

Some of his accomplishments as a composer are Movement in ‘C’ Minor (which won second place in the Steelband Junior Music Festival in 1995), Congrats, Play Yuh Pan, Pan Unity and Pan on de Street. Smith also released two songs for Panorama 2012 - Pan In Yuh Face and Jump Up And Play Yuhself sung by Dianne Smith and Garth David and respectively.

For the 2013 Panorama season he has released the track featured here,  Gih Me Some More sung by Barry Smith, and Music Is Meh Business and Pan Unity performed by Garth David.