Jair Dynast

As an inner city youth of Caribbean heritage, Jair Dynast saw both sides of urban life. He saw the dark‐side of a city struggling with a growing crime‐rate and an increasing population of young people being raised in single parent homes. Fortunately for Jair, he also saw a city rich with culture as his family fought hard to expose him to an eclectic mix of music in his household and outside. As a young boy of barely seven or eight years old, he was taken to free outdoor concerts at Ontario Place to hear “Chuck” Mangione