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General => Entertainment & Culture Discussion => Topic started by: davyjenny1 on January 29, 2010, 07:45:39 PM
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After suffering two strokes went into coma and died this morning
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Roland Gordon passes away; chief judge of Soca Monarch
ctntworld.com
The chief judge of the International Soca Monarch competition, Roland Gordon, has died.
C News understands that Mr. Gordon passed away shortly before 6 o'clock this morning at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex. Reports are that he was admitted on Tuesday after suffering a stroke.
Mr. Gordon, had adjudicated at the semi-final round of the competition on Sunday in Arima, and was found ill at home by his son, Rodrick and rushed to hospital.
The results of the competition were in limbo earlier this week, after reports of Mr. Gordon's sudden illness. The results were later delivered to Chairman of the Caribbean Prestige Foundation, William Munroe.
Mr. Gordon was a prominent calypso competition judge, arranger, and musical director of the Malick Folk Performing Company.
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And from:Trinidad & Tobago Express:
Soca Monarch judge Roland Gordon dies after stroke
Wayne Bowman wayne.bowman@trinidadexpress.com
Saturday, January 30th 2010
big loss: Roland Gordon
Musical director of the Malick Folk Performers, Roland Gordon, died at the Mount Hope Medical Sciences Complex yesterday where he was a patient after suffering a stroke on Tuesday.
Gordon served as chief judge at the semifinals of the International Soca Monarch competition at the Arima Velodrome last Sunday where he and his team looked at the performances of more than 80 artistes from about 5.30 p.m. to after 3 am Monday .
Gordon’s son, soca artiste Roderick ’Chucky’ Gordon, who is in the finals of the Soca Monarch Groovy category, discovered his father was ill and rushed him to hospital. Up until Monday when he was working on tabulating scores from the Soca Monarch semis, Gordon showed no signs of being ill.
The musician, actor and teacher had been serving as chief judge of Soca Monarch for nine years and was involved in the Best Village competition on several levels. Gordon also played in parang bands and judged in the junior and senior calypso monarch competitions.
William Munro, chairman of Caribbean Prestige Foundation, producer of the Soca Monarch, was shocked by Gordon’s sudden illness and subsequent death. Munro said Gordon’s passing was a great loss for artistes in Trinidad and the other Caribbean islands where he also worked with artistes.
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