This may surprise you, but it has taken me a long time to realise how deeply my songs have penetrated the Caribbean culture generally, and particularly that of Guyana. It is one of the epiphanies connected with my returning to live here 3 years ago.
I have to confess that in the early Tradewinds years, when people came up to me unsolicited and expressed their delight about a particular song and how much it had meant to them, I was –
