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‘Celebration’

sung by “Keet Styla”
composed by Ray Holman & Denis Williams

pan performance by Andre White
produced by Frankie McIntosh & Shawn “Roots” Mitchell

   

 

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“Celebration”
“Keet Styla”

Provided with the expressed permission of the composer(s)

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LYRICS

Verse 1

Soca, soca!  Fever, fever!
Feel it, feel it!  Magic!
Music sounding terrific

Chorus

Carnival in the atmosphere, pan and calypso everywhere
Everybody getting ready for this hectic festivity
Fete for so, roll and wine,
This is celebration time
Carnival in the atmosphere

Verse 2

Uptown, downtown
Come down! Come down
Players, Jammers, feters
Everyone is masqueraders

Chorus
_________________

Carnival in the atmosphere,
Soca and Chutney everywhere
Everybody getting ready for this hectic festivity
Fete for so, roll and wine,
This is celebration time
Carnival in the atmosphere

Verse 3

You hot, I hot; we hot, so what
Tempo! tempo!  Let’s go
We hold the world’s greatest show

Chorus


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“Keet Styla”
“Keet Styla”

Since 1984, “Keet Styla” formerly known as “Designer” has been working with renowned panists and pan composers/arrangers such as Ken “Professor” Philmore, Ray Holman, Robert Greenidge and Earl Brooks - as well as musicians including Ralph MacDonald, Monty Alexander, Frankie McIntosh, Leston Paul and Etienne Charles.

 

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Some of the more popular songs resulting from these collaborations are: ‘Rati-ray,’ ‘Pan by Storm,’ ‘Jump with Me,’ ‘We Just Can’t Go On Like This’ and ‘Prophet of Pan’ to name only a few. Currently “Keet Styla” is the leader/vocalist of The Therapi Band in New York City.

For the 2015 Panorama season, he takes vocal charge of Celebration, the track featured here.

Ray Holman
Ray Holman

Ray Holman is an internationally renowned educator, musician, arranger and composer who has received wide acclaim for his work in the field of music and in particular with the Steel Pan, the National Instrument of Trinidad and Tobago. Early in his career, his outstanding talent was recognized and at a young age, he started arranging and composing music for some of the country’s best known steel bands. Ray was the winner of two Panorama Championships in 1969 & 1970.

Ray graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine in Trinidad. He composed some 200 musical pieces and produced 4 LPs and 3 Compact Discs. In 1989, his achievements were recognized by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago when the Humming Bird Medal Silver was awarded to him for his work in Culture/Music.

In the United States, Ray has delivered key performances, including at the Madison Square Garden and the Lincoln Centre in Manhattan; he was a Visiting Artist in Seattle at the University of Washington. In Canada, he started the first Steel Pan Programme at the University of Manitoba. Ray Holman continues to travel and teach internationally.

In Trinidad and Tobago, he founded the Ray Holman Band, a small group of talented musicians whose repertoire is varied with a touch of Jazz. He continues to arrange for steel bands nationally, regionally and internationally. He has also been recognized as one of the 50 Music Icons of Trinidad & Tobago when the country marked its 50th Anniversary of Independence.

 
 

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