| Silver Stars began functioning in Newtown, Port-of-Spain, in the 1950s and was initially made up of students from St. Mary's and Queen's Royal Colleges. Under the leadership of Edgar "Junior" Pouchet, the band made several popular recordings during the 1960s and 1970s, but never achieved much in musical competition until 2009 when it won the Panorama competition. As of 2009, Silver Stars remained the only steelband to win the Band-of-the-Year competition which it won in 1963 with "Gulliver's Travels," produced by Russell Charter and designed by Pat Chu Foon. |
