BΔSTILLE

For more information please visit:

http://www.bastillebastille.com


BIWFY / TWWFNO / Sour Lemon / Violet Street / Sunlit Youth / Hummingbird / Gorilla Manor

Leeandro Noray is a young "born and raised Tobagonian" with a big appetite for pan music. He first got involved in the music business at the age of 8. He played in his first panorama with the West Side steel orchestra and two years later became a member of the Our Boys Steel orchestra {TOBAGO} and that is where everything took off for him as an arranger.

In 2005 He arranged a Stevie wonder composition for the National Junior Music Festival Ensemble category with Our Boys Youths and they placed second nationally, that year he also did all the songs for the band's carnival road competitions and they won every category. 

In 2007 he entered in the baker's scouting for talent competition and placed 3rd out of just about 60 contestants, he also went to New York to participate in the panorama competition and got very good comments about his musical ability. 

In 2010, while back in new york for the panorama he was interviewed by a local TV station in one of the panyards.
In the interview, he said
"I have been told I have a very smooth touch on the instrument that most don't and that's what gives me the edge on the competition, every where I go my ability to quickly learn and play the instrument has attracted allot of attention especially from music greats like: Len 'boogsie' Sharpe,Clive Bradley,Duvone Stewart,Seion Gomez,Professor Ken Philmore,Earl Brooks,Liam Teague,Brian 'Bean' Griffith to name a few". All whom he states he still holds a good relation with. 

The following year he was approached by his former high school (SIGNAL HILL SECONDARY) to be the school's steelband panorama arranger, he accepted and remained there till 2012. 

For the 2013 panorama season he teamed up with his longtime friend  Nuton "Skilit" James to arrange the panorama song for his new band "Uptown Fascinators" a dream he "Skilit" had for years, they placed 3rd in the THA Pan champs small band category and also got the peoples approval as a young musician to look out for also been flocked by the media for interview after getting a standing ovation following the bands performance.  
He was featured in the tobago news as a youth on the rise in july 2013
In August 2013 he traveled to London for the sound and music summer camp for young composers as a tutor, He did so well they the Sound and music company is using him at their co-ordinator to Speak to the Trinidad and Tobago government to bring the program to this country and to which UTT is already showing interest in and meeting with the THA are been set up.
  Despite having a passion for the steelpan he is also the founder and owner of     LEETECH STUDIO a local recording studio that he created in 2010 while teaching pan at Signal Hill, he saw the vast amount of talented singers Tobago had and decided to be the vehicle to get them noticed and to date the studio has grown exponentially in popularity especially on Facebook.

Minerva Corbie is following