‘A Groovy Pan Song’

Juliet Robin is the daughter of former Trinidad & Tobago Director of Culture Melville Robin. She is classically trained in string, woodwind and keyboard instruments and specializes in the violin, clarinet and piano. At age 17 she was selected to represent Trinidad on a cultural trip to Venezuela to perform with the Caracas Youth Symphony Orchestra. She is the winner of several classes in the Trinidad and Tobago Music Festival, including those for composition.

Juliet has performed as a keyboardist and vocalist with several bands including Charlie’s Roots, Shandileer, Roy Cape All Stars, Andre Tanker and Mano Marcellin. She played the clarinet, bass, drums and piano with female jazz band The Jazz Triple. Juliet has also performed as a guest clarinetist with members of the Trinidad & Tobago Police Band in a series of concerts.

Her extensive travel throughout Europe, North America and the Caribbean has been either as a member of a band or as a soloist, performing at several festivals and carnivals. Juliet is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resource Management, and has plans to pursue a second degree in Carnival Studies. She donates her talents to several charities including performing at homes for orphaned children - a cause near and dear to her heart. Although Juliet currently teaches piano, her intention is to continue to share her knowledge of the music business with students interested in pursuing music as a career.

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Panist/composer/ producer/ and recent songwriter Miguel “Mario” Camps –a BA in musical arts graduate began his musical career at age 9 when he started to play the steel pan with Free French Steel Orchestra from San Fernando, Trinidad. Some years later after a long lull in his involvement in playing pan, during his adolescent years, he hooked up with San City Steel where he broadened his musical scope particularly in improvisation and arranging for pans.

Over the years Miguel has judged and performed for several competitions, two of which were Shades in Steel’s 2002 winning panorama rendition of ‘Dulahin’ and the 2013 Calypso Queen Competition as soloist for Joanne Foster who stole the show with a victory. Miguel Camps is currently a music teacher at Marabella South Secondary School and manages a home studio.

A Groovy Pan Song is Miguel’s third outing in composing, writing and producing a “pan tune,” which he also mixed and scored. His previous works are 2015’s Take It Higher also vocalized by Juliet Robin, and 2014’s Jam De Pan sung by Whitney “Whitz” Julien. Since the steel pan is his ‘first love’ he looks forward to writing many more pan tunes designed for the Pan.

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