Trevor W. Payne

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Trevor Winston Payne , CM (born December 21, 1948 in Black Rock, Bridgetown , Barbados ) is a Canadian musician, composer and university professor.

Life

Payne was born a national of Barbados. His family emigrated to Montreal in 1958 . He became a Canadian citizen in 1982. Payne studied orchestral conducting at McGill University in Montreal. He taught at John Abbott College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue (Québec) from 1974 until his retirement in 2006. From 1976 he was musical director there.

plant

Since 1965 Payne was the singer of the group Trevor Payne and the Triangle , which played soul and rhythm and blues . The band later appeared under the name Kanda Kanda and played with The Doors , Jefferson Airplane , Joe Cocker , Van Morrison and Jethro Tull , among others . In 1974 he founded the Montreal Black Community Youth Choir . He has led the successor choir , the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir , since it was founded in 1982.

Awards

In 1996 he was appointed a member of the Order of Canada by Roméo LeBlanc because of his services to gospel music in Canada . He received the Thomas A. Dorsey Award at the Ottawa Blues Festival in 2000 . He was awarded the Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002 on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II's golden jubilee .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sandra Wilson: Trevor Winston Payne ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia . February 6, 2014. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
  2. ↑ Trevor Payne at singers.com . Retrieved June 28, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Payne, Trevor W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Payne, Trevor Winston (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Black Rock, Bridgetown , Barbados