John Alcindor
Doctor. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad (his birth date may have been the 9th of July 1873). He won a scholarship in 1892, which paid for his passage to Britain, where he studied in Edinburgh and G...
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Winifred Atwell
Pianist. Born Una Winifred Atwell in Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago. Her birth date is given as either the 27th of February or April in either 1910 or 1914. She began playing the piano from an early...
Person, Music / songs, TV & Radio, Australia, Caribbean Islands
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Selwyn Baptiste
Selwyn Baptiste was a Trinidad and Tobago-born pioneer of the introduction of the steel drum into Britain, forming the country's second steel band in 1967, and early organizer of London's Notting H...
Person, Community / Clubs, Education, Music / songs, Caribbean Islands
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Francis Barber
Born in Jamaica circa 1742/3 with the name 'Quashey' (a common name for male slaves). He was brought to England by his owner, Colonel Richard Bathhurst, and was sent to school in Yorkshire and then...
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Frank Bates
Lead vocalist with the Southern Syncopated Orchestra. Born in Barbados, he joined the orchestra initially as a banjo player. He died with seven other members of the band in the sinking of the SS Ro...
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Harry Beckett
Harold Winston "Harry" Beckett. Trumpeter and flugelhorn player. Born Barbados. Resident in the UK from 1954.
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Baroness Floella Benjamin, DBE, DL
Trinidadian-British actress, singer, presenter, author and politician. Known as presenter of children's programmes such as Play School, Play Away, Jamboree and Fast Forward. On 28 June 2010, Lady B...
Person, Children, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, TV & Radio, Caribbean Islands
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Terrence Alonzo Best
Terrence Alonzo Best was born on 9 December 1932. On 20 August 1959 he is shown as arriving in Southampton, Hampshire, aboard the S.S. Ascania having departed from Port of Spain, Trinidad and Toba...
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Sterling Betancourt
Sterling Betancourt MBE, FRSA is a Trinidad-born pioneer, arranger and musician on the steelpan, a major figure in pioneering the Pan in Europe and the UK and an important pioneer participant in th...
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Boney M
Pop group. Originally, the group comprised four Jamaican born singers. They achieved world-wide chart success with songs such as 'Ma Baker', 'Rivers of Babylon' and 'Rasputin'.
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