DEAN WILLIAMS - Guitarist  

 

 

FULL NAME: Dean Richard Felix Borde Williams
BIRTH DATE: August 30th 1969
STAR SIGN: Virgo
BIRTH PLACE: San Fernando General Hospital, Trinidad & Tobago
BROTHER/ SISTER: 2 brothers, Brian (1978) & Andrew (1982), 1 sister, Theresa (1973)
INSTRUMENTS: Guitar, Bass Guitar, Trumpet, Synthesizer, Percussion
TRAINING: Classical Guitar, Trumpet, Latin Percussion, Drumming Theory & Practical, Vocals
HOBBIES: Composing music, reading, swimming, movies, video games
INTERESTS: Business, Politics, Caribbean culture, Children
GREATEST LOVE: Daughter, family, culture
FAVOURITE FOODS: Chinese, creole, pasta
CAREER: Session musician/ producer/ composer
TRAVEL: North & South America, Canada, Japan, Korea, England, Spain, the Caribbean
TYPE OF MUSIC: Calypso, soca, reggae, Caribbean jazz, blues, rock, pop, latin

 
     
 
 
     
     
 

Dean Williams was born on the 30th August 1969 at the San Fernando General Hospital in Trinidad. This Virgo was welcomed into a family of five (5). He has been a part of Xtatik since the year 2000 as their lead guitarist.

Dean graduated from a variety of institutions (Fatima RC, Hillview College and John Donaldson Technical Institute) and has attained training in various musical instruments such as guitar, bass guitar, drums, trumpet, synthesizer and percussions. His hobbies extend a list of composing music, reading, swimming and video games.

His greatest love is his daughter and culture. Dean is more the quiet intellectual type and his passion is music. He has a lot of experience in the music industry having produced tracks for Denise Belfon, Fate and Chris Garcia and worked with big names such as Denise Plummer, Atlantik, Qwestion, Kindred, 3 Canal and Plague.

Schools

Ø Fatima RC Curepe
Ø Hillview College
Ø John Donaldson Technical Institute
Ø Pam Pipers Music School
Ø The Music College

Work Experience

Ø 1998-1999 – Qwestion, Kindred, 3 Canal
Ø 1993-1998 – Central Bank – Accounting Assistant
Ø 1993-1997 – Atlantik, Solomon
Ø 1992 – Sean Bartholomew
Ø 1990-1991 – Zoom & Riddim D’Vizion
Ø 1990 – Micrographics Technician at CCS
Ø 1989 – Denise Plummer
Ø 1989 – Radio Technician at Radio Trinidad
Ø 1988 – Plague (Heavy Metal)

Training

Ø Hands on at Ryan Romany’s World Beat Studio – Arranging and Producing
Ø LCCI – Programme in Marketing (Diploma)

Studio Recordings (1991-present)

Ø 3 Canal
Ø Ajala
Ø Billy D Kid
Ø Blue Ventures
Ø Chinese Laundry
Ø Chris Garcia
Ø Denise Belfon
Ø Eric Jacob
Ø Fireflight
Ø Gailann & Rocky
Ø General Grant
Ø Ghetto Flex
Ø Iwer George
Ø Kalyan
Ø Kindred
Ø Melanie Hudson
Ø Nicole Greaves
Ø Nigel Lewis
Ø Oscar B
Ø Peter C. Lewis
Ø Senelle Dempster
Ø Solomon
Ø Superblue
Ø Tony Prescott
Ø Traffic
Ø Zoom

Programming/ Producing (1998-present)

Ø Ajala & Question – Sugar Stick, Tribute, Jam Meh Dey, How We Jumpin
Ø Denise Belfon – How yuh treating mih so
Ø Fate – Life (not yet released)
Ø Chris Garcia – Fatel Razak

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