Firm Foundation Band (FFB) launched its second album on April 26, with a concert in the beautiful setting of Green Meadows in Santa Cruz.
Hundreds of people came out to listen to the young group perform its latest songs, along with other Christian favourites by the likes of Sean Daniel, Denyse Plummer, Mark Isaacs and Joshua Ali.
The band's first album was launched in 2012.
An up-and-coming gospel-Christian band, FFB was formed in 2003 by Kerwin Springer, who was 14 at the time.
The band plays all genres of music and is committed to perfecting all aspects of its music, whether on bass, guitar, keyboard, drum or pan and saxophone, and ministering to youth in the nation.
FFB has been performing across the land through the church.
Pastor Winfield Springer, administrator of Firm Foundation Ministries, challenged and encouraged his children–Josiah, Kerwin and Nathan–to bring some vibrant music into the church by playing the instruments they mastered while growing up; and they did just that.
From the age of five, he began teaching them the keyboard and guitar.
The children were quick to learn to play the instruments and started teaching the other children in the neighbourhood, who eventually joined the band.
Then, vocalists joined, and now there is a vibrant group of at least 12, ministering all over T&T at various events.
FFB's genre of music stretches over reggae, R&B and alternative, to soca, and many other mixtures in-between.
For the band, the best is live music and this is why the members try to perform in as many places as possible, because, as Kerwin says, "we want the people to really feel the music and dance to it–like David did in the Bible.
"We hope to touch the hearts and souls of all the youth in Trinidad and Tobago, in order to get them to understand that living a righteous life is the only way to true and eventual happiness."
THE MEMBERS
1 Kerwin Springer–bandleader, keyboardist, vocalist, and main song and music composer
2 Troy Williams–drummer
3 Nathan Springer–guitarist and vocalist
4 Josiah Springer–bassist, guitarist and vocalist
5 Jessi Charles–drummer, keyboardist, guitarist, pannist and vocalist
6 Rachel Rivers–vocalist
7 Stacee Lewis–vocalist
8 Latonya Springer–vocalist
9 Nakasa Thatcher–vocalist
10 Christopher St Louis–keyboardist/drummer
11 Samuel Rivers–vocalist/ drummer/saxophonist
12 Brian Jaggernauth–keyboardist