Bobby Mohammed
{{Short description|Trinidad and Tobago musician and pannist (1942–2021)}}
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Lennox Sylvanus "Bobby" Mohammed{{Cite web|last=Webb|first=Yvonne|date=2021-06-02|title=Daughter recalls 'beautiful soul' of Bobby Mohamed|url=https://newsday.co.tt/2021/06/02/daughter-recalls-beautiful-soul-of-bobby-mohamed/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-03|website=Trinidad and Tobago Newsday|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602051706/https://newsday.co.tt/2021/06/02/daughter-recalls-beautiful-soul-of-bobby-mohamed/ |archive-date=2 June 2021 }} (2 June 1942 - 25 May 2021) was a musician and pannist from Trinidad and Tobago. He was the youngest arranger to win Panorama.
Career
Lennox Mohammed was born on 2 June 1942{{Cite web|title=Lennox "Bobby" Mohamed (Mohammed) - Champion Panorama Arranger|url=http://www.panonthenet.com/tnt/2012/arrangers/lennox-bobby-mohammed.htm|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-02|website=When Steel Talks/PanOnTheNet|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713005600/http://www.panonthenet.com:80/tnt/2012/arrangers/lennox-bobby-mohammed.htm |archive-date=13 July 2013 }} in Siparia; his family moved to Mon Repos in San Fernando when he was nine years old.{{Cite journal|last=Khan|first=Nasser|date=2013-07-07|title=Bobby Mohammed … A Steelpan Legend Re-emerges|url=http://hdl.handle.net/2139/40692|journal=Trinidad Guardian|hdl=2139/40692 |via=UWISpace}} He attended Presentation College, and was a founding member of the Gondoliers steelband. He left and founded the Cavaliers in 1961 with 18 pannists.{{Cite web|date=2003|title=Lennox Mohammed|url=http://www.nalis.gov.tt/national_icons/LennoxMohammed.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081023164014/http://www.nalis.gov.tt/national_icons/LennoxMohammed.htm|archive-date=23 October 2008|website=National Library and Information System Authority}} Later that year, the Gondoliers and the Cavaliers faced each other in a competition to win sponsorship from Guinness Caribbean Ltd, with the Cavaliers winning. The Cavaliers went on to win the 1964 Southern Steelband Competition.{{Cite book|last=Maxime|first=Gideon|title=Pan through the years: 1952-1996|year=1997|location=Trinidad and Tobago|pages=210|chapter=Lennox 'Bobby' Mohammed: Pan Player, Arranger, Composer|oclc=499650517|chapter-url=http://www.seetobago.org/trinidad/pan/panpeep/pp24.htm}} In 1965, the Cavaliers took first place at the Panorama competition, making Mohammed the youngest arranger to win.{{Cite web|last=Webb|first=Yvonne|date=2021-05-27|title=Mohammed remembered as 'eternal' pan arranger, composer|url=https://newsday.co.tt/2021/05/27/mohammed-remembered-as-eternal-pan-arranger-composer/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-02|website=Trinidad and Tobago Newsday|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210527095940/https://newsday.co.tt/2021/05/27/mohammed-remembered-as-eternal-pan-arranger-composer/ |archive-date=27 May 2021 }} After placing second in 1966, Mohammed and the Cavaliers finished first again in 1967.
Mohammed was awarded the Gold Hummingbird Medal in 1992.{{Cite web|title=National Awards Database|url=https://otp.tt/trinidad-and-tobago/national-awards-database/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-02|website=The Office of the President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150425215841/http://otp.tt/trinidad-and-tobago/national-awards-database/ |archive-date=25 April 2015 }} In 2019, the Harris Promenade East Street in San Fernando was renamed the Lennox "Bobby" Mohammed Street in his honour.{{Cite web|last=Wilson|first=Sascha|date=25 May 2021|title=South mourns death of legendary pan man 'Bobby' Mohammed|url=http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/south-mourns-death-of-legendary-pan-man-bobby-mohammed-6.2.1333371.5fb6456f22|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-02|website=www.guardian.co.tt|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210525170153/https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/south-mourns-death-of-legendary-pan-man-bobby-mohammed-6.2.1333371.5fb6456f22 |archive-date=25 May 2021 }}
Mohammed died on 25 May 2021 at the San Fernando General Hospital after experiencing kidney failure.{{Cite web|last=Webb|first=Yvonne|date=2021-05-26|title=Steelband arranger Lennox 'Bobby' Mohammed dies|url=https://newsday.co.tt/2021/05/26/steelband-arranger-lennox-bobby-mohammed-dies/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-02|website=Trinidad and Tobago Newsday|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526055940/https://newsday.co.tt/2021/05/26/steelband-arranger-lennox-bobby-mohammed-dies/ |archive-date=26 May 2021 }} His funeral was held on 1 June.{{Cite web|last=De Silva|first=Radhica|date=2 June 2021|title=Farewell to pan icon Bobby|url=http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/farewell-to-pan-icon-bobby-6.2.1336641.b0c5c4c3bd|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-02|website=www.guardian.co.tt|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602124631/https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/farewell-to-pan-icon-bobby-6.2.1336641.b0c5c4c3bd |archive-date=2 June 2021 }}
References
External links
- [https://www.caribbeanreview.org/2011/09/bobby-mohammed-memories-in-pan/ Memories in Pan (2011)]
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Category:Recipients of the Hummingbird Medal
Category:People from Siparia region
Category:People from San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
Category:20th-century Trinidad and Tobago musicians
Category:Trinidad and Tobago male musicians
Category:20th-century male musicians
Category:21st-century male musicians
Category:People educated at Presentation College, San Fernando