Trinidad-born, Miami-based Etienne Charles was almost destined to be a musician. “My father, my uncle, my brother played in steel bands and my mother always had music on in the house,” he told the Amsterdam News.
Trinidad-born, Miami-based Etienne Charles was almost destined to be a musician. “My father, my uncle, my brother played in steel bands and my mother always had music on in the house,” he told the. Now, Charles teaches music and is a musician and composer himself. “I would describe myself as a musician, a trumpeter with a bit of percussion, but I also focus on telling stories with music.” Charles is also the mastermind behind the upcoming “San Juan Hill: A New York Story,” which debuts Oct.
The release for “San Juan Hill: A New York Story” describes it as, “An immersive multimedia work…transports the audience via music, visuals, and original first-person accounts of the history of the San Juan Hill neighborhood and the indigenous and immigrant communities that populated the land in and around where Lincoln Center resides.
A number of things surprised Charles as he did his research. “Most surprising was about the volume of Caribbean immigrants in the neighborhood. Also the fact that the dance called the Charleston as people know it, was developed in San Juan Hill. These Afro-descendant art forms that then became American art forms, came from here.”
Charles elaborated that San Juan Hill was “branded a slum” as one reason why much of the culture eventually moved, or was forced to from there due to “urban renewal” projects, part of which resulted in the creation of Lincoln Center.
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