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Lee An­na Ma­haraj

Trinidad and To­ba­go made its mark on the Gram­my stage on Sun­day, as lo­cal tal­ent won awards in clas­si­cal mu­sic and mu­sic video cat­e­gories.

Kwamé Ryan, a 56-year-old Trinida­di­an-Cana­di­an con­duc­tor and for­mer di­rec­tor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts, won the Gram­my Award for Best Opera Record­ing for the Hous­ton Grand Opera pro­duc­tion of com­pos­er Jake Heg­gie’s In­tel­li­gence.