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- Title
- Funérailles de Rolph Warner, eulogie de Loama Warner
- Original title / translation
- Rolph Warner funeral, Loama Warner’s eulogy
- Collector
- Aurélie Helmlinger
- Collection
- Musique, Trinidad et Tobago (2010-2011)
- Recording date
- Oct. 29, 2011 - Oct. 29, 2011
- Access type
- metadata
Geographic and cultural informations
- Location
- Trinidad
- Location details
- Marvin Lee Stadium, Centre of Excellence, Macoya
- Language
- Anglais trinidadien
- Language (ISO norm)
- English
- Population / social group
- Ethnographic context
- Discours de la sœur du défunt.
Rolph Warner était journaliste freelance et conseiller du ministre de la culture (Winston "Gypsy" Peters) au moment de son décès. De par sa profession, il a rencontré beaucoup d’artistes trinidadiens, qui l’ont honoré pour ses funérailles.
J’ai logé chez Loama Warner d’octobre 2001 à fin août 2002, et j’ai ainsi cotoyé Rolph pendant plusieurs mois.
Archiving data
- Code
- CNRSMH_I_2015_017_001_05
- Published references
- Warner funeral this Saturday http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Warner_funeral_this_Saturday-132669873.html
Published on Oct 26, 2011, 10:52 pm AST
The funeral service for Rolph Warner, Multiculturalism Minister, Winston "Gypsy" Peters' special adviser who succumbed to heart failure while playing football on Sunday, will take place on Saturday at the Centre of Excellence, Macoya, from 10 a.m. Warner will then be buried at the San Juan Cemetery.
Members of the media, sporting and cultural fraternities are expected to come out in their numbers to say farewell to Warner who for three decades served in these areas.
Warner was goal keeping for the Queen's Royal Old Boys football team at a reunion fete match among colleges at the Queen's Park Oval when he collapsed. Warner was rushed to St Clair Medical, but efforts to revive him were futile.
Tributes continue to come in for Warner who assisted many calypsonians, soca artistes and others through the years, not only through the articles he wrote on them, but also in securing funds to record, getting gigs here and abroad and finding sponsors.
Roy Cape told the Express that Warner would send out media releases for him from wherever he was at no charge.
"Anything Rolph did he did it nice and right. He loved culture. It was nothing too much for him to give advice and help out in any other way he could.
"When he was up in Toronto I would send information to him from anywhere in the world I was and he would get it in to all the papers for me with no charge or talk about money. We were not just friends, we were real, real good friends."
Music producer and founder of the band Second Imij, Johnny Gonzalves, also spoke of how helpful Warner was, with nothing expected in return. "Words cannot express the heartfelt loss of one of Trinidad's leading journalists in the arts.
"Rolph and I go back to the 90s during my Second Imij days and he was always so supportive of all my music ventures. Rolph would call to find out what, if anything, we needed. He will be greatly missed," Gonzalves said.
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Emotional send off for Rolph Warner http://newsday.co.tt/features/0,150113.html
By Joan Rampersad Saturday, November 5 2011
Emotions of different kinds, and at varying degrees were expressed at the funeral of personal Media Relations Officer to Minister Winston “Gypsy” Peters, Rolph I L Warner last Saturday at the Centre of Excellence.
Warner’s younger brother, Eustace “Sprockett” Warner was moved to tears as he spoke of his elder brother. For those who didn’t know it, Sprockett told of days when Rolph would don one of his impeccable suits and head out to help many a budding cultural artiste, but without a cent in his pocket.
Sprokett said Rolph had a big heart, but when he needed reciprocation, there was little or no assistance coming his way. That was until Peters hired him ten months ago to work with him. Sprockett said that position was the pinnacle of Rolph’s career and magnanimously thanked the Minister for giving his brother the break he always dreamed of.
Rolph’s sister, Loama Warner, who accompanied Rolph at many an event in TT, spoke of her best friend in the world, “my brother”. It was hard not to feel her pain as she reminisced on the close relationship she shared with Rolph. Daughter, Tremaine Soca could not hold back the tears as she spoke of “a man set apart”. Son, Rolph II Warner also gave an ode to his father.
Emotions then rose to another level when Sonya Le Maitre and Candace Alcantara sang “Gone Too Soon”. - Remarks
- Last modification
- June 24, 2015, 6:53 p.m.
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- Audio
- Item size
- 332.2 MB
