Pan Player, Arranger
From Lewis Street and born in San Fernando, Winston Graham had his primary schooling at San Fernando Boys Government School. In his early years he played with the Rogue Regiment Steel Orchestra.
Over the years he has been pushing the steelband in the international market, not only as a player, but as an arranger and businessman.
Through his business acumen, he has introduced the steel orchestra into secondary schools in Barbados, London and the Home for the Blind in Santa Cruz. He has lectured on the steelpan at most of Trinidad and Tobago Embassies abroad and has been honoured in several countries.
One of his achievements was the creation of a completely portable steelpan; developed with the assistance of the Caribbean Industrial Research Institute (CARIRI).
Winston Graham played no small part in the Management Committee of the Southern Steelband Movement, when in 1978, this group broke away from Pan Trinbago and organised its own Panorama. He was the Advisor to the Movement.
Winston Graham was honoured in Port of Spain on Ash Wednesday 1988, by the Chief Judge of the US Virgin Islands, for his work in that country's development of the steelband.
Winston Graham is a pannist who has made his mark at home and abroad, spreading the name of Trinidad and Tobago and its musical art-form; the steelband.
He is a pannist of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
