As a young man, my roots were almost totally Guyana, with a large slice of Trinidad when I started the Tradewinds band in Toronto where I had migrated and hooked up with a wash of Trinis living in that city. The language of the Caribbean, in all its formations, holds great fascination for me, partly for its ingenuity but also for its highly original combinations or inventions. A good example was my experience in Guyana where I went to college, on a scholarship – my folks could not afford the high school fees – and encountered this range of invention and sheer creation that is a striking feature of Caribbean life.
