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Veteran songwriter,
recording artist, composer
and performer
Pelham Goddard has
long been associated
with the steelpan instrument.
He is a championship
arranger in his own
right and resident arranger
with Exodus Steel Orchestra.
Pelham Goddard has penned
and/or arranged some
of the most memorable
Caribbean music pieces
ever.
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Gregory “GB”
Ballantyne
began composing
professionally in
1986, when he
collaborated with
Len “Boogsie” Sharpe
to pen
Pan Rising and
Dis Feeling Nice sung by Denise
Plummer. In the
ensuing years he
would co-write
winning Panorama
selections for
Desperadoes, and
again for Phase II.
In Trinidad, GB’s
compositions have
won the National
Calypso Monarch
(Senior and Junior)
Young King,
International
Humour, National
Queen, Unattached
Monarch, South
Calypso King and East
Zone Monarch.
His works have placed artistes
like Rikki Jai,
Devon Seale, The
Mystic Prowler,
Aaron Duncan, to
name a few, into
winner’s row.
GB’s credits also include
National and
Regional Calypso
Monarch titles in
Antigua and
Anguilla, as well as
Chutney hits such as
‘Tassa-Man’ sung by Rooplal Gidharie and
the perennial
favourite ‘Ribbons’
sung by Marilyn
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