Journey of a Panman - Mr Cedrick Luces (Author) & Ms Sharon Carew (Author)

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….