The 2017 CAF scholarship recipient is Dequan Smith.

Dequan is 14 years old and he is in Year 9 at John Gray High School. He absolutely loves music with a passion, spending all of his spare time playing either the piano, trumpet, euphonium, recorder, Irish whistle or cello. He is first trumpet in the John Gray Swing Band, he plays the trumpet or euphonium in the Police band, cello in the Cayman National Orchestra, cello also in the CAF / GreenlightRe String Quartet, and keyboard at St. George’s Church.