If you think there is any­thing to make David Williams (Hap­py) sad, for­get it. Give him the stand­ing bass pen and pa­per and leave him alone, David is hap­py in his world of mu­sic. An ac­com­plished bag­gi­est and com­pos­er, David is tri­ni to the mar­row, for­get bone. His love for his na­tive land and pan knows no bound. He was a for­mer In­vaders stand­out. A few years he made a for­ay in­to the world of the pan song com­pos­ing. He re­leased songs, clothed in a dif­fer­ent ar­mour, far re­moved from the mun­dane. His sto­ry telling was sweet like Ca­roni brown sug­ar. Song like Hap­py Sto­ry (2000), Ping Pong Ob­ses­sions, Keep the Mas­ter In Mind (2001), The Prize (2003), The Spir­it (2004) The Mas­ter (2005) and They Jam­min (2006).

Pan lovers be­gan ask­ing where's Hap­py? Why did Hap­py leave the are­na? Lack of air­play? No! He found him­self get­ting caught up in a com­pet­i­tive en­vi­ron­ment, and cer­tain be­hav­iours made him feel un­wel­come. "It just wasn't mak­ing sense," Hap­py said. Added to that the qual­i­ty of the songs were lack­ing and there was this "wash your feet and jump in" cul­ture that per­vad­ed the at­mos­phere. He points to the Panora­ma, and its need for ex­cel­lence in judg­ing and mu­sic. He feels that Len Sharpe (Boogsie) has come down from his cre­ative throne and is not in­volved in the Panora­ma hus­tle. "Look at Boogsie's mu­sic now and com­pare it to long ago and you would see the dif­fer­ence," he ad­vised.

Al­though he's hap­py, the pan song mill is rolling along with young com­posers he wants to see more qual­i­ty songs. "Pan songs have no life af­ter Car­ni­val," he said and peo­ple can­not iden­ti­fy with them on the in­ter­na­tion­al mar­ket." In the mean time Hap­py is hap­py play­ing his jazz mu­sic. He has just com­plet­ed gigs at the Lin­coln Cen­tre, and is mov­ing on to Nan­tuck­et Is­land for more per­for­mances.

How­ev­er, he couldn't re­sist the urge to pelt a clout at Panora­ma judges. "They don't know any­thing about pan mu­sic. "If you beat them on the head with a bril­liant com­po­si­tion, it breaks my heart to say it, but its the truth, they won't know the dif­fer­ence," he signed off.