Trevor W. Payne

Trevor Winston Payne, CM (born 21 December 1948 in Black Rock, Bridgetown, Barbados ) is a Canadian musician, composer and university teacher.

Life

Payne was born a citizen of Barbados. His family emigrated in 1958 to Montreal. He became a Canadian citizen in 1982. Payne studied orchestral conducting at McGill University in Montreal. At John Abbott College in Sainte -Anne- de -Bellevue (Québec), he taught from 1974 until his retirement in 2006. Since 1976 he was music director there.

Work

Since 1965, Payne singer of Trevor Payne and the Triangle, the soul and rhythm and blues was played. The band later joined under the name Kanda Kanda and played among other things together with The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Van Morrison and Jethro Tull. In 1974 he founded the gospel choir Montreal Black Community Youth Choir. The successor choir Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir he directs since its founding in 1982.

Awards

In 1996 he was appointed Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions to the gospel music in Canada Roméo LeBlanc through. On the Ottawa Blues Festival in 2000, he received the Thomas A. Dorsey Award. With the Golden Jubilee Medal, he was on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee Award in 2002 by Queen Elizabeth II.