Vanessa Headley (feat. Kern Sumerville) - August 03, 2021 - Emancipation Week - Anthony’s Cari-Jazz Artiste of the Day
Vanessa Alexandra Headley is a 28-year steelpan devotee and known as the first and only person to win the National Panorama Competition (Small Band 2018) as the composer, singer and arranger of the song. Founded by her mother, Vanessa was the first student of “Golden Hands Steel Orchestra and Music School” in San Fernando, Trinidad. At age 12, she produced her first arrangement for the band. Vanessa is a repeated winning soloist and in 2005, earned the CXC Caribbean Music Award. She was the first Steelpan musician to be awarded an academic scholarship by Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA.
Facilitating and performing at several international workshops, she has also adjudicated competitions in Calypso, Mas and Steelpan, in Trinidad and the UK. Vanessa holds a BA(Hons.) in Musical Arts (UWI) and an MA Psychology for Musicians (University of Sheffield, UK). In 2020, she made history again as the first female to arrange for three different bands in one year in all conventional categories at Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama competition.
Kern Sumerville is a talented pannist, vocalist, Steelband Arranger, Musical Arranger/Transcriber, Drummer, Percussionist, French Horn player, Saxophonist and Bandleader from Trinidad and Tobago. Kern learned to play the steel pan at Parry’s Pan School at the age of seven and to date he has achieved a Certificate in Music from the University of the West Indies and is pursuing his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music at the University of Trinidad & Tobago.
Through the many years, Kern has arranged the Panorama arrangements for several school steelbands for their entry into the National Panorama competition. Most notably, his alma mater, St. Augustine Senior Secondary Comprehensive School and the Laventille Police Youth Club Steel Orchestra.
As the leader and musical director of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Steel Orchestra, Kern is the mastermind behind many of their stellar performance pieces including the 2020 Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama Single Pan Category where they placed in fourth after entering for the first time. Kern has also lent his discipline as a drill master to other bands such the Republic Bank Exodus Steel Orchestra for the 2020 National Panorama Large Band Category.
Kern Sumerville’s passion and love for music motivated him to form his own band in 2010 and following their success over the years, he launched a new logo and clothing line establishing a solid brand for himself.
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