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| Garfield Blackman (Photo Winston Peters) |
What he did not know at the time was that it would be his next musical step.
Going down by “the line” in Marabella for a sea bath, sometimes three times day, was the meditation that brought Jamoo the musical upgrade to Sokah which he invented and for which he lost many friends along the way. Africans and Indians alike chastised him for blending their rhythms.
And while he seeded 14 children with Claudette time has proven the late Garfield Blackman, Ras Shorty I, gave an entire nation a formula for love and unity which was largely ignored.
“What they condemn me for is what they are using now,” he said, three years before he died.
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Would you consider this a LOVE song???
Lord Melody - Come Go Calcutta
NO!!! But the ACCOMPANIMENT is marvelous!!!
Calypso in those days wasn’t the kind of music that you could sing a love song -- ??????