Lennox "Boogsie" Sharpe (born 28 October 1953 in

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) is a successful and popular composer and arranger of

steelpan The steelpan (also known as a pan, steel drum, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steelband or steel orchestra) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago. Steelpan musicians are called pannists. Descriptio ...

music.

Biography

Sharpe began his career with Starlift steelband where he worked as a co-arranger with

Ray Holman Raymond Anthony Holman (born 1944) is a musician, composer, pannist and performer from Trinidad and Tobago. Biography In 1957, Ray Holman began playing steelpan at the age of 13 with the Invaders Steel Orchestra, led by Ellie Mannette, for w ...

. He is most strongly associated with the

Phase II Pan Groove Phase II Pan Groove is a steel orchestra from Trinidad and Tobago. Band Phase II Pan Groove was formed in August 1972 by a group of seven innovative musicians (Barry Howard, Rawle Mitchell, Andy Phillip, Selwyn Tarradath, Ian Clyde Gibson, Noel ...

Steel Orchestra, a band he has taken to several finals of the

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steelband competition, as well as winning the first place in 1987 and 1988.Panorama
Sharpe does not teach steelpan privately one-on-one; instead, he teaches it publicly at the panyard. Sharpe started to play steelpan at a young age when he was just four years old. He used to play with

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, then he went to Starlift, the steelband with which

was taking the revolutionary step of composing music specifically for the instrument. Sharpe wanted to continue what Ray Holman had started by starting his own steelband in 1972.

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