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The name Renegades is immediately
associated with champions, precision, and perfection.
Renegades represents one of the most respected, oldest and
elite steel orchestras in the world. Their distinct style
and high performance level are renowned globally.
When Steel Talks
is pleased to have
captured some of the many moods and accomplishments of
Renegades over the past years.
The BP Renegades
Steel Orchestra was founded somewhere around 1945, at the
end of the Second World War. This makes it one of the
world’s oldest surviving steelbands. The name Renegades was
selected from a movie by the same name, during a period when
the early steelbands in Trinidad and Tobago organized
themselves as small armies, and often chose names that were
popularized by movies about the World War.
The Renegades has developed over the years into an ensemble
of outstanding musicians that has written its name indelibly
on the musical landscape around the globe; in the process
becoming the most traveled cultural ambassadors of the
twin-island Republic.
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