William DeForest “Boo” Pearson :: Vocals & Percussion (b. Middletown, CT) Boo was a founding member of the Loose Caboose band and participant in the recording of “Dealer’s World” (1981) with Geoffrey Chung and Clive Hunt at Dynamic Studios in Kingston, JA. Boo has been a member of the Equalites since late 1987, and contributed as a songwriter to the Equalites first album, “Choice of Worlds” (1991).

Boo is a principal accompanist in the West African Dance Program of the Five College Community Inc. of Amherst, MA. under the direction of Sekou Sylla. He is also a percussionist with the Niahbinghi Boppa choir and Negril West Recording Studio of Jamaica.

Boo studied traditional Haitian drumming in Port –Au-Prince, Haiti with Peniel Guerriere, artistic director of the Dance Company Tamboula D’Haiti.