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Laurent LALSINGUE
Born to an Indian family settled in Port Louis, Guadeloupe AND La Réunion, Laurent Lalsingué started playing the pan at the tender age of four. He belongs to the “panatics familyâ€, mystics of the unique instrument who believe that nothing is more beautiful than a perfectly sounding pan. This virtuoso instrumentalist is able to interpret Chopin and Pastorius in addition to traditional steel pan music.
Laurent’s efforts to acquire musical perfection stretch also to the violin where he earned the First Prize of the Music Academy with respect to the instrument. Furthermore, he is the first French musician to obtain a steel pan Jazz Diploma. He studied steelband arrangment with Rudy Smith and even furthered his knowledge of the instrument by studying pan tuning with Lincoln Noel, Darren Dyke, Clifford Alfred.
Laurent has been teaching at Calypsociation, a steel pan music school in Paris, France since 1998.
Among those whom Lalsingué has performed with are reknown panists Andy Narell, ,rudy smith, calypsociation; Arrogante venganza para jaco.p; Les Alizés, Desperadoes, Glissando and Panash, Andy Narell steelband PROJECT.
He has also played with CIIJ (caraib to Jazz whith gregory louis,jonathan jurion,régis thérèse),Miriam Makeba, Paco Séry, Eddy Louis, Bob Sinclar, The Wailers, Michel Alibo,Mario Canonge,Thierry Fanfant,Thierry Vaton, Bago, Jack schwarz-bar,hervé gourdikian,daniel huck,davy honet,gang h, hervé laval,claude vamur,david patrois,rheda samba,mohktar samba, weuz kelly,alexandre desplats, Jean-jacques Elangué, fayadub, unlogistic,...
With over twenty-fours years of playing and making music, Laurent finally completed his debut album “Yon†(meaning “the First One†in Creole). He takes kompa, biguine mazurka and calypso, which comprise the music of his French ‘West Indian roots, and blends them with more contemporary funk and soul music to create his musical compositions. “Yon†promises to to take listeners to newfound musical ground, where the vibrant diasporic influences ingested by Lalsingue over the years come together, deliciously dressing the centrepiece of the pan.