Wayne Bowman wayne.bowman@trinidadexpress.com
Saturday, January 30th 2010
big loss: Roland Gordon
Musical director of the Malick Folk Performers, Roland Gordon, died at the Mount Hope Medical Sciences Complex yesterday where he was a patient after suffering a stroke on Tuesday.
Gordon served as chief judge at the semifinals of the International Soca Monarch competition at the Arima Velodrome last Sunday where he and his team looked at the performances of more than 80 artistes from about 5.30 p.m. to after 3 am Monday .
Gordon’s son, soca artiste Roderick ’Chucky’ Gordon, who is in the finals of the Soca Monarch Groovy category, discovered his father was ill and rushed him to hospital. Up until Monday when he was working on tabulating scores from the Soca Monarch semis, Gordon showed no signs of being ill.
The musician, actor and teacher had been serving as chief judge of Soca Monarch for nine years and was involved in the Best Village competition on several levels. Gordon also played in parang bands and judged in the junior and senior calypso monarch competitions.
William Munro, chairman of Caribbean Prestige Foundation, producer of the Soca Monarch, was shocked by Gordon’s sudden illness and subsequent death. Munro said Gordon’s passing was a great loss for artistes in Trinidad and the other Caribbean islands where he also worked with artistes.
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