The product of a liaison between his mother and an American soldier
in Trinidad during World War Two, growing up not knowing his father
and only vaguely aware of his mother, who left for Venezuela in his
infancy, young Cedrick defies the authority of his aunt to learn to play
the steelpan thereby charting the course of his life’s journey. Migration
to Venezuela; homelessness, musical adventures and misadventures; grief;
migration to the US, hustling, drug use and dealing accompanied by
narrow escapes from the law; becoming a master pannist; family matters
and settling down - these are some of the twists and turns of the journey
of this panman….
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