Join Us As We Explore and Embrace the Only Constant, LIFE CHANGES!!!
Featuring Performance Guest, Trinidadian Steel Drummer, Composer, Singer, Instrumentalist, Emile “Spiceman” Borde; and Interview Guest, Accomplished Animal Communicator, TEDx Speaker, Educator, Author, and Founder, Communication with all Life University, (CWALU), Joan Ranquet, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 876
Interview Guest: JOAN RANQUET; and Performance Guests: EMILE “SPICEMAN” BORDE
LISTEN LIVE at 7 PM PT, Monday, January 12, 2026 HERE
EMILE “SPICEMAN” BORDE
Emile Borde has introduced the steel drums to a wide audience both in the U.S. and abroad having traveled extensively with his family group “Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band” he has toured and performed with top artists like “Cher”, “Jaco Pastorius”, “David Lubega” of mambo #5 fame, recorded several albums with various artists ranging from Jazz to Hip Hop and Classical styles.
Emile is performing in Los Angeles where he currently resides and will be happy to bring his special magic to your event both as solo or group, which can include fire and limbo dancers for a true Caribbean experience.
Areas of specialization
Live musical entertainment: writer/composer /steel-drummer.
Talent development /Exercise and fitness / Inventor / Video & photographer.
Professional Experience
Musical arranger/singer/instrumentalist/recording artist
Bandleader/solo artist/world tours with Cher and Lou Bega
National tours with Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band, Cultural Ambassador Trinidad & Tobago.
Venues
Casinos: Harrahs, Las Vegas Hilton, Lake Tahoe, Atlantic City’s Boardwalk, Club Med, Disneyland,
Greenfield Village, Broadmoor Hotel, private engagements. nightclubs and restaurants, major conventions and state fairs.
Accomplishments
Detroit Metro Music Award for Best Steel Drummer Stage Presence.
Recorded with Bob Marley’s Wailers band and Francisco Mora’s Latin Jazz band.
Roy Brooks Aboriginal Percussion Choir
Produced documentary for the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band.
Musical Director, and Band leader for the Tropical Connection Band
Performed at Moers Jazz Festival in Germany with the Detroit All Stars, including world famous
Saxophonist James Carter.
Produce and market original compositions through CD and DVD.
Produced documentary for National Public Radio (NPR) 2003: Lost and Found Sound: Liberace and the
Trinidad Tripoli Steel band.
Published “Sometimes when we dance” Part of the collection at the International Library of Poetry.
Worked with Jazz Legend Othello Molineaux (Warner Bros)
Created and designed the Pan Pal with Rodney Boudreaux Phd.
Performed three times at the annual ZMF Music Festival in Freiburg Germany.
Special projects
Movie scores/scripts, children’s stories, infomercials, product marketing.
Christmas performance for Nickelodeon’s “Game Shakers” show.
Robek’s Juice. Sales and promotions.
Bassist with Los Angeles rock group Grand Rising.
Bottlist. Art of bottle balancing.
Musical consultant and actor for 2025 movie “Pan Gyul” shot in Nevis & St. Kitts.
Find, Follow, and Feel Into the Offerings of Emile “Spiceman” Borde at: www.theemileborde.com
