Category: Calypso/Pop
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Destra Garcia
About Destra Garcia is a Trinidadian musician, singer and songwriter of soca music. She is also known by the mononym Destra. She is one of the most popular female soca artists in the world. Albums/Songs: Soca Or Die Independent Lady Queen Call to Action: What’s your favorite Destra Garcia song? Share your thoughts in the…
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Machel Montano
About Machel Montano is a Trinidadian soca recording artist and record producer. Known for his high energy, fast-paced, and often unpredictable on-stage performances, he is one of the genre’s most popular artists. Albums/Songs: The Xtatik Experience B.O.D.Y. – Band of D Year Monk Monté Bazodee (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Monk Evolution Machelements (Volume 1) Happiest…
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Arrow
About An arrow is a fin-stabilized projectile launched by a bow. A typical arrow usually consists of a long, stiff, straight shaft with a weighty arrowhead attached to the front end, multiple fin-like stabilizers called fletchings mounted near the rear, and a slot at the rear end called a nock for engaging the bowstring. A…
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Calypso Rose
About Calypso Rose or Linda McCartha Monica Sandy-Lewis is a Trinidadian calypsonian. She started writing songs at the age of 13; over the years, she has composed more than 1000 songs and recorded more than 20 albums. Considered the “mother of calypso”, Rose was the first female calypso star and her lyrics frequently address social…
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Mighty Sparrow
About Slinger Francisco ORTT CM OBE, better known as Mighty Sparrow, is a Trinidadian calypso vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist. Known as the “Calypso King of the World”, he is one of the best-known and most successful calypsonians. He has won Trinidad’s Carnival Road March competition eight times, Calypso King/Monarch eight times, and has twice won…
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Harry Belafonte
About Harry Belafonte was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte’s career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Albums/Songs: Jump Up Calypso The Midnight Special An Evening With Belafonte / Mouskouri Belafonte Sings the…