IN SHORT

At 12 years of age, Lloyd Gallimore still didn’t speak Spanish, since his Jamaican father and Martinican mother talked to him in English. We have his school teacher to thank for his language training, which allowed him to write songs in Spanish. After 52 years at the helm of one of the most important orchestras in the history of Panama, The Beachers, Lloyd points to patience as the only way to achieve success.