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About ACN. Shisha Available. Tesla Style. Reserve Your E-Hookah Today. Visit our. Photo Gallery. View Entire Gallery. This is an interesting story and worthy of the time spent listening to the narrative or reading the text below 6 mins. Listen to the audio version because it is accompanied by music clips from various artistes. There has been much discussion regarding the creation of the Soca beat but this article rightfully stated that he genesis of the music came from Lord Shorty.
It is important to note, as stated in the discourse, that the music has evolved into something different today The text of the documentary is posted beneath the audio player. Consider it Red Bull for your ears, or music with a purpose. Soca stands for "soul of calypso," and it was pretty much invented in the s by Trinidadian artist Lord Shorty, who claimed that the soul of calypso was as multicultural as his island's African and East Indian descendants.
To set this post-colonial hybrid to music, Shorty sped up calypso and gave it an Indian twist. In the 30 or so years since its invention, soca has evolved into the club-friendly, studio-produced music of a younger generation. Soca artist Kees Dieffenthaler explains it this way: "It's kind of like calypso's young, teenaged bad son," he says, "it's really a younger sound, more vibrant than calypso.
Soca artists record, release and perform music at a frenzied pace during carnival season, when the whole country is partying to the same soundtrack. Every year, performers campaign in a kind of musical election — competing for two titles. One contender for this year's crown is Fay-Ann Lyons. It's grand; it's extravagant; it's flamboyant; it's bold — it's like everybody does a piece of Las Vegas, with all the costumes.
Imagine seeing that from 10 different competitors, all expressing and presenting their songs to the judges, trying to win first prize. Lyons calls her own sound "aggressive and tomboyish. In , she won both Soca Monarch and Road March—while 8 months pregnant. Lyons is soca royalty: her father is calypsonian Superblue and her husband is soca star Bunji Garlin — call them soca's Beyonce and Jay-Z.
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