Francis began playing the steel pan at eleven years of age in a primary school steel band. Perhaps due to his Afro-Caribbean origins he felt at ease playing Calypso and Soca on the steel pan from the start.

A year or so later, he was asked to join a Youth Steel Orchestra and Steel Band where he practised a more varied repertoire and began to understand the rhythms and rules of Latin, Jazz and Classical music.

Francis Steel Pan Player continued for three years in the Youth Steel Orchestra and as his skills improved was invited to play with a Steel Band run by the teachers of the Youth Steel Orchestra. Later he lived in Paris for a year where he played with a French-Caribbean Steel Band and mastered a new, innovative style of playing.

His repertoire as a soloist is mainly Calypso and Soca, but he also likes to play Bossa Nova, Salsa and if required Jazz and loves to add jazzy improvisations to all songs.