Roger began his professional music career in Barbados at fourteen as lead singer / guitarist for the Merryboys – a teenage calypso and dance music quartet styled after the famous Merrymen, a band in which his older brother Chris played bass. With music all around him from a child, he absorbed the style influences of his musical family members and wide circle of musicians friends.

Five years of performing, recording and touring the Caribbean with the Merryboys led to another 5-year stint with the Sandpebbles – a Caribbean dance band known for its distinctive sound and a string of  Sach Moore-composed hits like “Sandra”, “Girl Ah Want It”, “Another Dream” and “I am A Barbadian”, classic songs still heard across the Caribbean today. The group toured the Caribbean, Canada and the U.S.A., sharing the stage with Caribbean greats like Kitchener, Sparrow, Byron Lee & The Dragonaires, Johnny Nash, Tomorrow’s Children, Kaliyan, Jackie Opel.

Roger studied music theory, piano and voice through the Royal Schools of Music, U.K. and researched the folk music of Barbados and the Caribbean, a passion that continues today. He was a co-producer of Barbados’ Carifesta 1981, a pan-Caribbean festival of hundreds of performers from over 35 countries.  He was part of a team led by Elombe Mottley, whose efforts led to the renaissance of Bajan calypso in the 80's. Roger continued to perform solo and arrange for local artists Gabby, Vern Best, and Sach Moore's two “Best of Barbados” albums, featuring Barbados' top artists.

In Canada since 1986, Roger has been a popular perforimg artist in the Caribbean community. He also recorded and performed with Anne Lederman’s Come From Every Way band, with Achilla Orru’s Aapa Idomo and done recordings with Caribbean artist / producers such as Ossie Gurley and Eddie Bullen. Roger has also volunteered with the Organization of Calypso Performing Artistes (OCPA) and been on the Advisory Board of the Caribana Festival Management Committee (FMC) since 2007.

From 1993-98 he directed a folk choir Banja that performed his own unique SATB arrangements of Caribbean repertoire. Since 1995, he has been a singer with COBA (Collective of Black Artists), a Toronto-based dance / theatre company that has toured to Ottawa, B.C. and N.Y. State, and in 2008 to Jamaica and Trinidad.  

He has produced and performed in numerous Caribbean productions, including Toronto Harbourfront Centre’s Carnivalissima Festival (Calypso Calabash) and in 2007 a segment he created titled Karibeatz. He has recorded two solo CDs – “Spirit of Calypso” (1999) and “Calypso Classics on Guitar – vol. 1” (2005).

In 2009 Roger was hired as an Artistic Director for the Scotiabank Caribana Festival, the largest Caribbean festival of its kind in North America.  He currently performs solo and leads Toronto-based Shak-Shak, a classic calypso combo. He also plays guitar with local ska/jazz band The Liquidaires, led by Chris Wilson, and teaches music privately.

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