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The back of singer Joy Barnum’s neck often hurts after a performance. It’s from laughing and smiling so much. She kicks the stereotype of a sombre, stern opera singer right to the kerb. “People tell me a lot that I’m not what they expected from an ...

Patrick Lee thought reading and rap were worlds apart until three years ago. The Bermuda College Literary Society opened his eyes to the connection. Ironically, he only joined to fulfil credit requirements. “It was a club or sports and I don’t lik...

Ronald Lightbourne’s friends in Jamaica would scare him with ghost stories as a child. The tales were full of supernatural beings they called “duppies”, each one more terrifying than the next. The 69-year-old never forgot them. He’s infused the stori...

Working on a cruise ship isn’t for everyone. The travel is constant and the work can be intense. Steel pan player Robert Symons got hooked in 1989 and hasn’t looked back. His latest gig was on Oceania Cruises. “I was staff and crew in the entertainme...

Jeremy Houghton’s father wasn’t too happy when he told him he planned to become an artist. His exact words were: “Don’t be stupid! Get a real job!” But the choice paid off for the 41-year-old Brit. He’s painted everyone from royalty to Olympians and ...

Hamilton Town Crier Edward Christopher is used to telling people what to do, loudly. No surprise then, that following orders proved a bit of a challenge when he joined the Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society’s production of Stick Fly. Another strugg...

Clarence “Tootsie” Bean always had time for youngsters and Nathan “Nate” Lucas never forgot that. The 47-year-old jazz musician met the Bermudian drummer through his father, Maxwell “Max the Sax” Lucas. The two would regularly play in Harlem nightclu...

Birdwatching seems tame until the cops show up. One day, Andrew Dobson was using binoculars to look at shorebirds on the LF Wade Airport runway when he was stopped by a police officer. The avid bird-watcher quickly pointed to the whimbrels he’d been ...

Eviction, jail, divorce ­­­— you name it, Glen Iris has been through it. The 65-year-old uses his life experiences, good and bad, to pen inspirational poetry. He is sharing some of his work at the Bermuda Literary Festival next month. “I used to se...

There’s more than one fascinating mystery surrounding the missing Tucker Cross. BR Bentley was intrigued the first time he learnt about the gold and emerald-encrusted artefact discovered by treasure hunter Teddy Tucker in 1955. The cross was found t...