Garifuna Living Legend Pen Cayetano
Garifuna Living Legend Pen Cayetano, is a painter, singer, songwriter, percussionist and guitarist. He is the leading cultural revivalist and ambassador for the Garinagu. He is a self-taught painter and musician and mostly inspired by his Garifuna heritage. Pen is recognized as the creator of the Punta Rock, the first contemporary Garifuna Rhythm. In 1979, he founded the Turtle Shell Band with Mohobob Flores and Myme Martinez, Faltas, Nolberto, Bernard Higgins and Peter "Jeep" Lewis at his Art Studio on 5 Moho Road in Dangriga. In 2013 The Governor General of Belize, Sir Collville Young, appointed Pen Cayetano a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his wonderful and numerous contributions to music and art, on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. His studio, which you can visit and view his work, and farm is in Dangriga.
Photograph by Tony Rath
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