Andrew Gioannetti
Renowned jazz trumpeter Etienne Charles has been named one of many 2025 Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Excellence laureates, earning a $500,000 prize for his contributions to song.
Charles, of Trinidad and Tobago, a renowned bandleader, composer, and professor on the University of Miami’s Frost College of Music, is widely recognised for mixing jazz with Caribbean genres.
Since 2006, he has launched ten albums, alongside side the acclaimed Creole Soul and Creole Orchestra, the latter of which earned an NAACP Image Award nomination.
He has performed with jazz legends admire Wynton Marsalis and the Count Basie Orchestra and collaborated with esteemed symphonies comparable to the New York Philharmonic.
Amongst his many accolades are a Guggenheim Fellowship and France’s prestigious title of Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
His 2022 multimedia work, San Juan Hill: A New York Chronicle, delved into the displacement of African-American communities in the course of the creation of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.
Charles is one of 4 laureates named in this year’s Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Excellence Awards. Thought of as the save’s most prestigious company honour, the awards beget a shiny time its twentieth anniversary this year.
The awards beget equipped $32 million to 66 laureates since 2005.
TT’s Rachel Renie-Gonzales used to be renowned with an award in the entrepreneurship class. She is co-founder of D Market Movers, an e-commerce platform centred on the farm-to-table offer chain.
She is credited with making improvements to farmers’ livelihoods, reducing food extinguish and offering buyers with novel native fabricate for over 16 years.
Her industry provides frozen fruit products, hosts farm-to-table eating experiences and mentors younger entrepreneurs.
Guyana’s Ayodele Dalgety-Dean used to be honoured in the final public and civic contributions class for her work with Blossom Inc, a nonprofit offering serious products and companies for girls folks, childhood and prone migrants.
The Anthony N Sabga awards credited Dalgety-Dean for remodeling lives and promoting social integration, in particular inside of indigenous and migrant communities in Guyana by potential of her advocacy, therapy and outreach efforts.
Jamaican cancer researcher Dr Simone Badal received the award for science and abilities for her work in drug discovery and trends in cancer therapy.
The four laureates would possibly be renowned at a gala in Port of Spain on June 7, after they will accumulate their money prizes, citations and commemorative medals.
