Urban Sentinel (May 2023) - Vanessa R. Tracy

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ABRAHAM MILLINGTON Abraham Millington, formerly affectionately known "Sammy", before as Samuel Abraham Millington. Abraham began singing at age 3 - 4 and was heard singing harmonies to songs aired on the radio, or repeating his relatives who were majority musicians. Of course, his Dad carrying the known musical name Millington in Barbados, could be heard daily singing going about his daily chores. Abraham mastered singing and playing the recorder from Primary School days at St. Clements Infants & Junior School, later being part of the first Class 4A

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group of the newly built Ignatius Byer School, before going onto the Coleridge & Parry Secondary School to bloom, with a very early ability to perform virtuosic pieces for trombone. Love's Enchantment by Arthur Pryor, Blue Bells of Scotland by Leroy Anderson, Moreau Symphonique by Alexandre Guilmant, and a favorite past time piece in Song for Trombone and the lead part for Three Jolly Trombones, among many other calypso, folk, reggae, jazz, military music, world music, musical theatre, church music and classical popular tunes.


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