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    Aubrey Cummings was a Guyanese musician born in 1947 who was self-taught on guitar and influenced to pursue a career in music by Michael Bacchus. He joined his first band, Bumble and the Saints, in 1965. The band helped popularize the string band style over big bands. Cummings went on to join other popular Guyanese bands of the 1960s-1970s like the Music Machine. He eventually established himself as a musician in Barbados in the 1980s, winning several awards. Cummings' career demonstrated the important role of music in Guyanese culture and society during his lifetime. He passed away in 2010 in Barbados.

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    Aubrey Cummings was a Guyanese musician born in 1947 who was self-taught on guitar and influenced to pursue a career in music by Michael Bacchus. He joined his first band, Bumble and the Saints, in 1965. The band helped popularize the string band style over big bands. Cummings went on to join other popular Guyanese bands of the 1960s-1970s like the Music Machine. He eventually established himself as a musician in Barbados in the 1980s, winning several awards. Cummings' career demonstrated the important role of music in Guyanese culture and society during his lifetime. He passed away in 2010 in Barbados.

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    Aubrey Cummings was a Guyanese musician born in 1947 who was self-taught on guitar and influenced to pursue a career in music by Michael Bacchus. He joined his first band, Bumble and the Saints, in 1965. The band helped popularize the string band style over big bands. Cummings went on to join other popular Guyanese bands of the 1960s-1970s like the Music Machine. He eventually established himself as a musician in Barbados in the 1980s, winning several awards. Cummings' career demonstrated the important role of music in Guyanese culture and society during his lifetime. He passed away in 2010 in Barbados.

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    Aubrey Cummings was born in the year 1947 and grew up in the Alberttown / Queenstown neighbourhoods of Georgetown,

    Guyana Discovered talent His decision to develop a career in pop music was influenced by Michael Bacchus and the
    Heartbreakers. The magic of popular music and show business excited him, and he took up the guitar. He is a self-taught
    guitarist.
    The first band Cummings joined was Bumble and the Saints in 1965--the early days of the string band era. He attended
    Queenstown Roman Catholic Primary School where he developed a reputation as an artist. However, it was not his art that
    would make Cummings a household name in Guyana during the 1960s and 1970s, it was his music. The birth of his music
    career Cummings' impact on music in the 1960s Bumble and the Saints was one of the bands that consolidated the shift from
    the big band sounds of Tom Charles and the Syncopaters, Nello and the Luckies, and Al Seales to the new styles and sounds
    of string bands.
    Guyanese string bands and musicians attracted attention in the Caribbean, and in 1965, Bumble and the Saints toured
    Barbados with Johnny Braff with moderate success. On his return from Barbados, Cummings joined Joe Wong and the
    Dominators. Cummings' next stop was with the Music Machine.
    The members of the band included Aubrey Cummings, Colin Aaron, George Reid, and King Souflantis. It had strings and
    brass. The Guyanese "big band" had resurfaced. Music Machine was also the first band since Combo 7 that paid its members
    monthly salaries. Members of the Music Machine earned themselves "big reputations."
    In Barbados, Cummings would establish an active musical career as guitarist and vocalist. In 1984 and again in 1985,
    Cummings won the Best Male Vocalist Award in Barbados. During the same period, he consistently won prizes at the
    Caribbean Song Festivals organized by the Caribbean Broadcasting Union. His guitar work also attracted critical acclaim,
    and he was a regular contributor to the acoustic guitar festivals organized by Barbados' National Cultural Foundation.
    According to Aubrey Cummings, he said that popular music contributed to the healing of Guyana during the 1960s and
    1970s and can do so again. His musical career is a reminder of the pervasiveness of music in Guyanese social life.
    Throughout his musical career, the influence of race, class, and colour in Guyana during the 20th century can be found in his
    music. His experiences demonstrated that Guyanese musicians worked hard. This attribute paid off as many of the
    musicians of Cummings's era who have migrated established satisfying careers overseas. Overall, it can be said by many that
    Aubrey Cummings is not only a musician of a generation, he is a cultural hero.
    He was found dead in his car at Haggatt Hall, Saint Michael, Barbados in the evening on April 14, 2010

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