Marjorie Whylie

Inducted in to the Jamaican Jazz Hall of Fame in 1997, Marjorie Whylie provides committed her life to discovering and expanding in the musical root base of her homeland. Her compositions, such as “Mountain Females,” “Ni Girl of Future,” “I Not really I,” “Bloodstream Canticles,” “Drumscore,” “Caribbean Canvas,” “The Dark Widow,” and “Journeys Beyond Success,” certainly are a pastiche of indigenous Jamaican folk, African polyrhythms, Western artwork music, and traditional jazz. The one-time performing director from the music division at the University or college of the Western Indies, Whylie may be the leader from the Country wide Dance Theater of Jamaica performers, for whom she arranges track suites and composes interludes and music for dance choreographers. She’s worked thoroughly with artistic movie director Rex Nettleford, composing and organizing such full-scale masterpieces as “Myal” and “Gerrehbenta.” A much-respected musicologist, Whylie offers lectured and carried out workshops in Britain, continental European countries and THE UNITED STATES and judged music contests in the Eastern Caribbean. Furthermore to performing using the Whylie Wrhythms Music group, Whylie is constantly on the play single piano and sing in exclusive Jamaican hotels.