“Keet Styla” FKA “Designer” : Ken “Professor” Philmore Remembered

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- September 28, 2022

Ken ‘Professor’ Philmore, Cro Cro, Superblue and “Keet Styla” backstage at the Theatre in Madison Square Garden 1992

I got to the studio and Frankie McIntosh was laying the down the keyboards, Pro was so excited because I believe it was the first single, his own composition, he was doing for carnival. He and George took me out in the lobby and sang the first verse and chorus of the song then I went into the vocal booth at the platinum factory and cut the track “Pan By Storm.”

We have lost a giant of a showman, a true ambassador of the steeldrum, a man who has touched the hearts of so many with the love and passion he played the instrument. I would love to see a scholarship, cultural center, street named in his honour because he made people all over the world love Pan more and more each time he played the notes on the drum.

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