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Ken "Professor" Philmore & Harmony Steel - "Nah Going Home"
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Every year at the end of the New York Steelband Summer season, steelpan music fans, enthusiasts and music educators can look forward to stellar quality recordings of the steel orchestras as they feverishly prepared for the
Read more…Pantonic Steel Orchestra - Live Yuh Life (Like Yuh Playin' Mas)
Jennifer Lopez - Jenny from the Block -- sampled 20th Century Steel Band's Heaven and Hell Is on Earth
Music video by Jennifer Lopez performing "Jenny From The Block". (C) 2002 Epic
Sample appears at 0:37 (and throughout)
Listen to sampled 20th Century Steel Band's Heaven and Hell Is on Earth: Sample appears at 0:00
Read more…Every time I hear TRINIDADIANS reference or compare themselves with JAMAICA -- I does want to JUMP OFF THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE ... because TRINIDAD ain't TRUMP when compared to JAMAICA ...
THIS IS REAL GLOBAL TALENT ... and it was developed OUTSIDE OF JAMAICA because JIMMY CLIFF travelled the course and picked up R&B ideas (BLACK YANKEE PERFORMANCE IDEAS) along the way ... I respect INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MORE THAN MOST!!!
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Gorillaz release surprise new EP ‘Meanwhile’, celebrating Notting Hill Carnival - featuring the steelpan
The three-track EP features AJ Tracey, Jelani Blackman and Alicaì Harley
by Will Richards
Gorillaz live. CREDIT: Luke Dyson
The EP’s title track was previewed at the band’s recent sold out shows at The O2 in London, one of which was attended sol
Read more…Ah doh know how THIS CALYPSO get into my head this morning but I have been singing it all day ... SUCK MEH SOCOUYANT
.. in terms of LYRICAL STRUCTURE and TENSION and RELEASE and REVERSAL (PLUS MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT) ... this is one of the best calypsos I have ever enjoyed. When CRAZY was out here, every time he get ready to go on stage I would run up to him and say
Read more…Mighty Sparrow LIVE from Restart Stages at Lincoln Center
Mighty Sparrow, the twentieth century's most famous performer of Calypso music, comes to #RestartStages! Light a candle and hold it up as the Trinidadian Calypso King and inimitable vocalist and storyteller brings the Caribbean Island fire to Linco
Read more…When AL-WARI say dey go get dey "MOTHER OF ALL CARNIVAL" ... well dey start to JUMP AROUND TIL DEY FALL DOWN ON THE GROUND ... doh dey didn't know if it was OFFICIAL ...man they start TURNING BEAST...
IN THE STREET ...
If this is not one of the GREATEST CALYPSOS EVER WRITTEN -- I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS!!!
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One of the best lyrical introductions I have ever heard in ANY CALYPSO -- thinking of Winston Soso's contribution to CALYPSO
In the heat of the jam
She want to go home
She say all meh family gone
We go be alone
Just as we reach
She take off she costume and put on she robe ...
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Read more…Atlanta-based Caribbean American Cultural Arts Foundation launches Cultural Connect program
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, UNITED STATES, June 8, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Caribbean American Cultural Arts Foundation (CACAF) celebrates Caribbean American Heritage Month with the launch of the Cultural Connect Program in partnership with the
Read more…I feel that I could arrange THIS CALYPSO better than BOBBY MOHAMMED and DUVONE STEWART and AQUIL ARRINDELL and BOOGSIE SHARPE and DEM TOBAGO ARRANGERS ... because I AM A REAL TRINIDADIAN!!!
Ah listen to ALL KINDA MUSIC -- but I REALLY LOVE CALYPSO MUSIC (and "WE KINDA MUSIC") THE BEST. And for years on THIS FORUM I have complained about the INABILITY of STEELBANDS to really deliver CALYPSO MUSIC ON PAN the way I WANT TO HEAR IT ... beca
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