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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

COTT mourns death of former president

by

Peter Christopher
2324 days ago
20190312
Former COTT president John Ryan Romany

Former COTT president John Ryan Romany

For­mer Pres­i­dent of the Copy­right As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go John Ryan Ro­many has died.

Ro­many died at ear­ly on Tues­day due to com­pli­ca­tions of di­a­betes. He was 69.

He found­ed the pub­lish­ing com­pa­ny World­beat Stu­dios in Tu­na­puna.

As a gui­tarist, he worked along­side artistes and played for sev­er­al bands such as Shandileer, Sound Rev­o­lu­tion, Taxi, 3 Veni and Melobugs.

He al­so toured with in­ter­na­tion­al acts Per­cy Sledge, Luther Van­dross and Rober­ta Flack.

He served as Pres­i­dent of COTT from 2011 to 2016.

Ro­many was al­so vice prin­ci­pal at the San Juan South Sec­ondary, where he had been a teacher for two decades.

COTT is­sued a re­lease on his pass­ing stat­ing, "The board, man­age­ment and staff of the Copy­right Mu­sic Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (COTT) are deeply sad­dened to hear of the pass­ing of Mr John Ryan Ro­many on Tues­day 12th March, 2019. Mr Ro­many made a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to COTT af­ter join­ing as a Pub­lish­er Mem­ber in 2005 with his com­pa­ny House of Rap­soul Lim­it­ed. "

The re­lease added, "Mr Ro­many al­so made his mark on the re­gion­al copy­right land­scape as a for­mer pres­i­dent and vice pres­i­dent of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Caribbean Copy­right So­ci­eties (ACCS). We wish his friends our sin­cer­est con­do­lences to his rel­a­tives and mu­si­cal fam­i­ly. May his mem­o­ry con­tin­ue to in­spire us all as we con­tin­ue to mak­ing mu­sic mat­ter."


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