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| STEELBANDS: | Trinidad
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CAREER: Bradley's
interest in music began while he was in high school and
taught himself to play the guitar. He later learned to play
the piano and landed a job with the Sonny Denner Band at the
Roxy nightclub. He then joined Choy Aming's Orchestra as the
pianist and started writing music for the band while
learning music theory. He moved over to the Clarence Curvan
Band when panist Beverly Griffith departed. Bradley became a
well-known keyboard player and arranger who worked with
several calypsonians, including Lord Kitchener and Lord
Nelson. After a brief stay in Canada in the mid-1960s, he
made his introduction to steelband music when he arranged
Mighty Sparrow's "Mr. Walker" for the Desperadoes Steelband
in 1968. His steelband music arrangements produced seven
Panorama titles: six for Desperadoes and one for
Nutones in
Trinidad and Tobago Panorama.
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| DIED: | November 26, 2005, at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital in Trinidad, four days after suffering a stroke. |
| Compiled by Ronald C. Emrit | |
