The First of the First - Chantal Esdelle - the first female and youngest panist to win the Pan is Beautiful pan festival solo competition

First - First

1992 - Chantal Esdelle co-winner of the soloist championship with Liam Teague at the 1992 National Steelband Music festival, is the the first female and at the age of seventeen - the youngest panist to win the Pan is Beautiful pan festival solo competition.

Although she is a scholar, an intellect and a deep thinker with many awards she remains humble. Indeed, it is her deep roots, knowledge of self and conscious awareness of who we are as a people amongst her vast accomplishments - that make her so special. She is a Trinidad and Tobago treasure. | see more |