The video of Massy All Stars' winning performance at the 2024 Panorama competition has been making its rounds on social media, with the spotlight falling on the passion of frontline tenor player Nalo Sampson as she contributed to the band's rendition of Olatunji's Inventor – while wearing stilettos no less.
Sampson, a devout Christian who had last performed with the band in 2016, told WMN she decided to play in this year's competition a week before the preliminary judging.
"I saw Smooth (arranger Leon Edwards) in passing in the panyard and he said the band was playing Inventor by Olatunji...I didn’t know the song as my radio is always on the gospel station 98.1," she said with a smile.
"But when I listened to it I got an energy that I get when I perform Unknown Band, my favourite Panorama arrangement. I also heard parts of Woman on the Bass in between," – Scrunter's song with which the band had won the Panorama title in 1980. Read More
Quash, C. (2024, February 25). Guided by God: All Stars’ Nalo Sampson returns to Panorama stage - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. Newsday.co.tt. https://newsday.co.tt/2024/02/25/guided-by-god-all-stars-nalo-sampson-returns-to-panorama-stage/
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