Someday
BacQayard Lenny Sylvester
This song dealing with the issues around climate change, what humanity is doing to the planet and the vast amount of people sleeping on the street in cardboard boxes in the major cities of the world.
BacQayard aka Lenny “Slyster” Sylvester Born in Trinidad and Tobago, in my formative years moved to Carriacou Grenada the homeland of my parents. I now based in Dundee Scotland and been involved in music most of my years. I have a varied taste in music and listen to different genres, but my influencers are people like Bob Marley and the Wailers, Lucky Dube, Finley Quaye, Sting, Joan Armatrading, Toots and the Maytals, Prince Buster, Alanis Morrisette, Tupac, Busy Signal and more….
BacQayard started out as a way of helping me to focus on something tangible like an object or a name, when researching for materials for writing music and lyrics for new projects.
Being in lockdown and not able to do live gigs or studio work due to the pandemic, inspired me to setup my home studio to record and write new material which eventually brought the BacQayard project to life. Having experience and written a song about the virus, I realised then that had 20 to 30 songs which I had completed enough to produce an EP or Album. The EP or Album BacQayard is due out later this year with the first track taken from it “2019 ahh Wah me ago do” drop in April 2021 and “So Lonely” drop December 2021. There are exciting times ahead for BacQayard and the journey to begins.
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My goal this year is to complete my album (HERE WE GO) 12 tracks written and composed by myself and I am halfway there already. All donations towards studio time will be greatly appreciated and all people donated will receive a signed copy of my finished album. One love to you all. Thank you.
This song dealing with the issues around climate change, what humanity is doing to the planet and the vast amount of people sleeping on the street in cardboard boxes in the major cities of the world.
The celebration of carnival on the Caribbean islands with people traveling back from all over the world to take part and to be with family and friends for the festive period.
The song is basically about being left behind by your partner and the breakdown of the long-term relationship you had together. The one left behind reminisces about the good times, in flash backs remembering the good and bad, refusing to accept what is happening.
2019 (Ahh Wah Me Ago Do) it’s a take on the past year of covid (20) and covid (19) and is based on personal experience contracting the virus.
Dundee Covid sufferer releases new song about his experience with the virus.
By Alan Wilson
One of Dundee’s best-known local musicians has released a new song inspired by his traumatic brush with Covid 19.
Lenny Sylvester was rushed to hospital a year ago after succumbing to Coronavirus and spent five days in Ninewells, struggling to move from his bed and having difficulty breathing.
Although still experiencing some after-effects of the virus, Lenny, who normally fronts his own band Buffalo Soldiers, used lockdown to create a home studio and began writing and recording some new songs under the name of BacQayard, the first of which is released digitally today (April 2).
Entitled 2019 (Ahh Wah Me Ago Do), it’s a take on the past year of covid (20) and Covid (19).
Lenny explained: “After I came out of hospital, I just wanted to get my feelings about it down and I started writing the lyrics.
“Being in lockdown and not playing music for so long actually inspired me to build a studio in the house and I’ve been using the time to write and record some new songs. I’ve got enough to release an EP in the summer.”
Lenny says he first started feeling ill in March last year when he developed a cough.
“I contracted the virus at the early stage of the outbreak when there was little or no known treatment or cure.
“The scientists, doctors and the authorities could not figure what treatment was best.
“I don’t know how I caught it, but the cough just got worse and worse and after about nine days I felt like I had the flu, I could hardly walk, and I was breathless and was getting dizzy spells.
“I phoned NHS 24 to get a prescription and they said to phone an ambulance if it got any worse. We eventually did and they gave me oxygen and took me straight to hospital.
“That night was horrendous, but really, I was lucky, I wasn’t in ICU, it was relatively mild.
“The award was full; a lot of people were in induced comas and thinking back now it was serious and I just think how lucky I was.
“I still feel some effects from it, if I walk long distances, I do get a bit breathless, I’m not quite right yet.”
Lenny, originally from the Caribbean Island of Carriacou, part of Grenada, came to Dundee in the late 1970s to join the hugely popular local band The Flamingos, after arriving in the UK a decade earlier aged 7 or 8 as part of the Windrush generation.
He met his wife Margaret, who also performs vocals on the new single. As well as starting a family, the couple have played together in various bands over the years and previously owned music venues The Bond, Lenons (Legends) and Redd.
Lenny wrote, performed and produced the catchy, reggae-fused song while the couple’s son Monty mixed it.
2019 (Ahh Wah Me Ago Do) is available to download from today on Spotify, iTunes and all social media platforms.
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“YOUR WEEK ON RADIO Dear Lenny Slyster Sylvester, You've had 5 airplays in the last week on Amazing Radio through our genre streams. Below is a record of what we played and when. Remember, you can check out the Radio Airplays tab on your profile for the latest listing of all your airplays. Fri 16 February 2024 Time Title Station Show 05:57 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Sun 18 February 2024 Time Title Station Show 19:35 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Tue 20 February 2024 Time Title Station Show 16:00 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Wed 21 February 2024 Time Title Station Show 20:37 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Thu 22 February 2024 Time Title Station Show 07:04 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul * all times are in GMT+0 timezone ”
“YOUR WEEK ON RADIO Dear Lenny Slyster Sylvester, You've had 6 airplays in the last week on Amazing Radio through our genre streams. Below is a record of what we played and when. Remember, you can check out the Radio Airplays tab on your profile for the latest listing of all your airplays. Fri 08 March 2024 Time Title Station Show 21:47 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Sun 10 March 2024 Time Title Station Show 07:34 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul 16:00 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Tue 12 March 2024 Time Title Station Show 07:09 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul 21:18 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Wed 13 March 2024 Time Title Station Show 23:45 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul * all times are in GMT+0 timezone ”
“YOUR WEEK ON RADIO Dear Lenny Slyster Sylvester, You've had 5 airplays in the last week on Amazing Radio through our genre streams. Below is a record of what we played and when. Remember, you can check out the Radio Airplays tab on your profile for the latest listing of all your airplays. Sat 16 March 2024 Time Title Station Show 03:11 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul 22:57 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Mon 18 March 2024 Time Title Station Show 07:33 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Tue 19 March 2024 Time Title Station Show 15:21 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Thu 21 March 2024 Time Title Station Show 21:40 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul * all times are in GMT+0 timezone ”
“WHERE TALENT GETS NOTICED YOUR WEEK ON RADIO Dear Lenny Slyster Sylvester, You've had 5 airplays in the last week on Amazing Radio through our genre streams. Below is a record of what we played and when. Remember, you can check out the Radio Airplays tab on your profile for the latest listing of all your airplays. Fri 26 January 2024 Time Title Station Show 00:24 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Sat 27 January 2024 Time Title Station Show 15:01 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Mon 29 January 2024 Time Title Station Show 21:58 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Tue 30 January 2024 Time Title Station Show 19:35 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Thu 01 February 2024 Time Title Station Show 17:58 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul * all times are in GMT+0 timezone ”
“WHERE TALENT GETS NOTICED YOUR WEEK ON RADIO Dear Lenny Slyster Sylvester, You've had 6 airplays in the last week on Amazing Radio through our genre streams. Below is a record of what we played and when. Remember, you can check out the Radio Airplays tab on your profile for the latest listing of all your airplays. Fri 29 March 2024 Time Title Station Show 02:54 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Sat 30 March 2024 Time Title Station Show 18:41 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Sun 31 March 2024 Time Title Station Show 14:30 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Tue 02 April 2024 Time Title Station Show 02:12 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Wed 03 April 2024 Time Title Station Show 05:00 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul Thu 04 April 2024 Time Title Station Show 23:40 SOMEDAY R&B / Soul * all times are in GMT+0 timezone ”
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