Driven by fans’ engagement with streaming – especially paid subscription audio streaming – digital revenues now account for more than half (58.9%) of the global recorded music market.
Total streaming revenues increased by 34.0%. By the end of 2018, t
Laura and Nigel chat with acclaimed jazz musician Etienne Charles from Trinidad and Tobago about how he built his international career. His forays into the business of music in the United States are examined to understand how building a
Global - Exactly eleven years ago (June 7, 2008) the steelpan music community lost one its finest musicians. Frank “Crawl” Findley of Desperadoes in Trinidad and D'Radoes in New York was simply poetry in motion. When Steel Talks remembers and salutes
Carnival TV - Meeting the Challenge of presenting Caribbean Entertainment and Events to the World
After years of unprofessionalism, bad products and lame excuses - Carnival TV stepped in and showed it could be done. In an exclusive interview the dir
New York, USA - One would have thought that there was not enough perfume or rather anything “sweet” smelling enough in the world to erase the stench of the appalling 2017 New York “Fake-O-Rama” held by W.I.A.D.C.A.(West Indian Am
Rawlston Charles, an immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago, promoted Calypso and Soca music to the world through his record store and his music label, Charlie's Records.
Tina Charles knows what it is like to be on the big stage.
When Steel Talks is pleased to announce that Errol "Augmented" Zephyrine is alive and well. He was one the Invaders Steel Orchestra pioneers and standout musicians. He also represented Starlift Steel Orchestra in the Trinidad and Tobago National S
We won an award last night for BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at Music Video Asheville! Huge thank you to Daniel Judson, the director for visually bringing my music to life. A big thanks to all the actors, musicans, & crew involved in making this short film ha
So far we have YOUR THREE and ONE from WHEN STEEL TALKS. I am adding SALAH WILSON and Robert Greenidge and Lawford Dupres and Ken Lawrence and Courtney Leiba!!!. Merrytonestothebone added Rudy Smith and Othello Molineaux and Sonny Blacks and Salmon C
If you go around the PAN CHAT FORUMS you will see hundreds of PAN LOVERS talking about PAN in the SIXTIES and SEVENTIES and a little bit in the EIGHTIES.
It is very unlikely that you will see too many people talking about PAN in the FORTIES; and just
AFTER a successful seven-year partnership in which Duvone Stewart brought victory after victory to Pan Elders steel orchestra, the arranger and the band have parted ways.
The southern pan fraternity reacted with surprise yesterd
According to the Trinidadian writer and broadcaster Isaac Fergusson, “Even politicians were afraid of Sparrow and what he would reveal about them in a song. Until he came along, most calypsonians were semi-professional. People paid them with rum and