Wadadli Experience Group
Welcome to Wadadli Experience Band from Antigua official authorized website for accurate and factual information about the history and legacy of band.
Registered in the twin-island state of Antigua and Barbuda as Wadadli Experience Enterprise 1976 LTD, Wadadli Experience was more than a band of musicians. They were a group of Rastafarians who overcame discrimination against them, resisted political pressure, and made history.
If you've lived in or visited Antigua and Barbuda during the seventies eighties and nineties, you must have heard about Wadadli Experience Band, for they were everywhere. However, If you've never heard of the group before, view the web pages on the site and learn all about the history of the band.
There are many bands with professional musicians that never made history for being the first to do something. Wadadli Experience was a group of untrained musicians that rose from obscurity to become one of the most popular, exciting, and influential band in Antigua and Barbuda's history.
The band comprised of nine self-thought musicians from different parts of the island with hardly any experience in reading sheet music, but the music, site, and sound of Wadadli Experience on stage was unlike any other bands in the history of Antigua.
Back in the 1970s and 80s, most of the bands in Antigua played Calypso, Soka, and the occasional Reggae, but Wadadli Experience was unique, audacious and versatile. No genre was beyond the band's reach, Wadadli played them all with style and passion to the delight and fulfillment of their fans.
Wadadli Experience was a major player in the tourist industry and the society of the Performing Arts in Antigua. Throughout Its existence, the band played at every major hotel, restaurant, local bars, and nightclubs in Antigua and Barbuda during the 1980,90, and early 2000.