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‘Asami (This One Is For You)’
sung by Anslem Douglas
composed by “Bogene”
produced by D’Kossack
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“Asami (This One Is For You)”
Anslem Douglas
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“Asami (This One Is For You)”
Anslem Douglas
Provided with the expressed permission of the composer(s)
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LYRICSVerse 1
(1985 pan it was alive
Right here in T & T
And it was alive in a faraway land
Quite in Sapporo shi) x 2
Japan the land of the rising sun
Where Miss Nagakiya was born
Not forgotten though she is gone
She came and embraced T & T culture
She was an ambassador
For the steel band music
Chorus
Our hearts
are so heavy
Since You left so untimely
You came to this land
Because of your love for steel pan
T & T so sorry
We miss you dearly
This one is for you ASAMI
Verse 2
(Physically
gone spiritually here right here in
T & T
When
Silver Stars play Panorama day
There you will always be) x 2
A part of our band on the tenor pan
In this Caribbean island
Not forgotten but she is gone
I know you'll be etched in our
memory
A part of our steel band family
You will surely go down in our band
history
Chorus
_________________
This one is
for you
In memory of you
This tenor is for you
Japan misses
you
T&T miss you too
this one is for you ASAMI
_________________
Verse 3
(Pan is
still alive always be alive
Right here in T&T
And is still alive will always be
alive
Quite in Sapporo shi) x 2
Japan the land of the rising sun
Where Miss Nagakiya was born
Not forgotten though she is gone
She came and embraced T&T culture
She was an ambassador
For the steel band music
Chorus
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Asami we miss you Asami (repeat)
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Anslem Douglas
Top vocalist Anslem Douglas is always one to keep an ear out for whenever the Panorama season rolls around. For 2017 music lovers had their fill with such performances as We Are Conquerors and Pan Kingdom.
He is at work here on Asami (This One Is For You) written by Eugene Bonaparte Williams aka “Bogene.”
The Grammy award-winning composer of “Who Let The Dogs Out” - Douglas’ vocal work has also brought alive such marquis ‘Pan Songs’ as Len “Boogsie” Sharpe’s Musical Vengeance, Battle Zone and It’s Showtime by the late Edwin Pouchet, and Brian “Bean” Griffith’s Big In De Dance - to name but a few over the last several years.
Eugene Bonaparte Williams aka “Bogene” was born in Point Fortin, Trinidad and emigrated to Toronto, Canada in 1976. His passion for writing songs goes back to his childhood days. Though his career path was not music-related he never stopped writing songs over the years. He writes songs in different genres of music and credits his neighbour Mr. Clarke on Main Field Road for this as he played songs from different genres of music which “Bogene” absorbed in his young developing mind.
Though he had never written a so-called “pan song” he was so saddened by the tragic death of Japanese panist Asami Nagakiya (1985–2016) that he felt compelled to pay tribute to her in song so he penned Asami (This One Is For You), but he did not get it released in time for the 2017 Panorama season. Undeterred by this he is releasing the song for the 2018 season along with his second penned “pan song” titled Panrific. To quote “Bogene” “It would be a great honor to have a steel band play any of my songs at the Panorama competition.”
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