From Resistance to Diplomacy: Steel Pan & National Anthems

About Me

Hello all, my name is Damoi Morgan. Above is me with a Suisse colonel, who I performed the Swiss national anthem with the American national anthem in January of 2024! I am a music and economics double major at Lafayette College. Fun fact, I applied for this program in Geneva, Switzerland, started this program in Dakar, Senegal, and ended this program in Sofia, Bulgaria! A wild ride, I know.

Being from Brooklyn, New York and having a Jamaican Father and Trinidadian Mother, I was deeply immersed in my West-Indian heritage. The steel pan is my main instrument and while being an academic as there is power in knowledge, I am also a musician. I have been playing the steel pan for 5 years (2024) and I have been a percussionist since I was born, hitting the side of my dad's car to the radio. Because of my avid love for music and traveling, I developed this project to allow my passion to be put to use. I always want to involve myself in academia in which I can be apart of and contribute, which is why studying, analyzing, and living within other people's art is so powerful for me. 

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