Guyanese in Edutainment

Benjamin Yhap: Musician and Co-founder of the Band "Chet and the Diamonds"

Benjamin Yhap, age 61, died May 9, 2005 at his home in West Covina, Los Angeles County, California. He was born January 2, 1944 in Guyana. Mr. Yhap was an accomplished musician. He and a few friends formed the band "Chet and the Diamonds" and were popular in Guyana in the 1960's.

R. B. Greaves - Singer/Songwriter - "Take A Letter Maria"

R. B. Greaves

Ronald Bertram Aloysius Greaves III, born in British Guiana, South America, on 28 November 1944 at the US Air Force Base at Atkinson Field (now Timehri). He is of African American and Seminole Indian decent and grew up on an Indian reservation in The USA.

Wordsworth McAndrew (November 22, 1936 - April 28, 2008)

Wordsworth McAndrew

Wordsworth McAndrew was born in 1936 to Winslow Alexander McAndrew and Ivy McAndrew and grew up in Cummingsburg and Newtown, Kitty. He attended Christ Church Primary School and Queen's College.

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