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Famous Antiguan band, 3 Cylinder will play on the opening night of this year’s St. Maarten Heineken regatta, in Port de Plaisance on Thursday March 5th, 2009. They are no strangers to the island, having performed during past regattas, 3 Cylinder’s lead singer “Onyan” actually made a surprise appearance during The St Maarten Heineken Regatta in 2005, and he left his fans with a taste for more.
As the name suggests, Three Cylinder Band is composed of three musicians; David “Krokus” Edwards, Toriano “Onyan” Edwards and Dalma “Boogie” George.
3 Cylinder was formed over fourteen years ago, born out of their love of music, the desire to perform all genres of music and the need to accommodate small entrepreneurs who could not afford the cost of the larger band Burning Flames, also from Antigua. Burning Flames band had been the number one soca-calypso band in the Caribbean for twenty-nine years and has performed in many venues from Amsterdam to Peru, and 3 cylinder is regarded as many as just as exciting.
David "Krokus" Edwards, a critically acclaimed bass player, has been rocking professionally for over twenty-nine years. His intense style and knowledge of his bass guitar has made him a much sought after musician. Krokus often competes in Antigua’s Soca Monarch Competition and has won or placed in the top two places every time. As the founding member of the Burning Flames band he travels around the world performing. Krokus writes, composes and sings many of the songs on the annually produced CD.
Toriano “Onyan” Edwards has been in the music business writing, recording and producing records for over twenty-nine years. Onyan began his career touring with the Mighty Arrow as his guitarist/arranger helping to produce such hits as “HOT, HOT, HOT” before starting Antigua’s most successful band, Burning Flames. In 1997, Onyan went solo with an album called "Crazy Man" which took the Caribbean by storm.
His song “Island Girl” has been used as a theme song in several movies and television shows. He won the crown and coveted titles as the Calypso King of Antigua and Soca Monarch King for four years. Onyan is the ghost writer for many other Caribbean Artists and has since returned to the Burning Flames band as the lead singer.
Dalma “Boogie” George started playing drums at the age of twelve in his father’s Scout Brigade Band, a unit that performed for various fetes and festivals throughout Antigua. Since then he has played professionally for a number of local bands: Ebonites Steel Orchestra, Fabulous Antiguans, Expression Brass, Laviscount, Three Cylinder, Vision Band, Rawden Edwards Trio, All Star Band, and Dread and the Baldhead.
Boogie likes all styles of music, especially jazz, and has recorded for such prominent calypsonians as Swallow, Progress and Latumba. He has also performed with Brian McKnight. Boogie is known Caribbean wide as “the Drummer El Supremo” and often has his personal audience at shows that come to experience his mastery and showmanship on the drums.
So come out and see for yourself, Thursday March 5th as Port de Plaisance, 3 cylinder-live in concert, “Serious Fun” at the St Maarten Heineken Regatta!
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