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“Celebration”
“Keet Styla”
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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
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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”
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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.
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.
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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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