- Curacaoan of Renown -
A Conversation with Guitarist / Bassist Roy Louis
- Part 1-
A Conversation with Guitarist / Bassist Roy Louis
- Part 1-
Guitarist / bassist (or bassist / guitarist) Roy Louis has been a close friend and
musical colleague for almost 40 years.
As I discovered, it's not easy interviewing your long time friends, as the conversation can can very easily get sidetracked into many different cracks and crevices of shared experience.
"Man, do you remember.......?" became the common theme, only to realize, half an hour later,
that we'd gone way off on a tangent.
* * * * * *
Roy Louis is a native of the island of Curacao (pronounced KEWR-ə-sow)
formerly of the Netherlands Antilles, which has a unique place historically and culturally in
the overall picture of the Caribbean and Latin America. Aside from it's predominately European and African cultural influences dating back to colonial times, the average Curacaoan is usually well versed in Dutch, Spanish, English, as well as the island's native Creole language, Papiamentu.
This unique and diversified Caribbean culture began molding Roy Louis, the artist, at a very young age. Beginning his musical career semi-professionally at age 6, and being completely self taught on electric bass and then guitar, Roy, is without a doubt, the most purely
"intuitive" musician I have known.
Here's Part One of my conversation with "my boy", Roy!
musical colleague for almost 40 years.
As I discovered, it's not easy interviewing your long time friends, as the conversation can can very easily get sidetracked into many different cracks and crevices of shared experience.
"Man, do you remember.......?" became the common theme, only to realize, half an hour later,
that we'd gone way off on a tangent.
* * * * * *
Roy Louis is a native of the island of Curacao (pronounced KEWR-ə-sow)
formerly of the Netherlands Antilles, which has a unique place historically and culturally in
the overall picture of the Caribbean and Latin America. Aside from it's predominately European and African cultural influences dating back to colonial times, the average Curacaoan is usually well versed in Dutch, Spanish, English, as well as the island's native Creole language, Papiamentu.
This unique and diversified Caribbean culture began molding Roy Louis, the artist, at a very young age. Beginning his musical career semi-professionally at age 6, and being completely self taught on electric bass and then guitar, Roy, is without a doubt, the most purely
"intuitive" musician I have known.
Here's Part One of my conversation with "my boy", Roy!
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