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Sam Boodram was a cocoa farmer in Cumuto. He used to have seventeen people working on his estate, picking cocoa as well as coffee cherries, bananas, and peewah.Boodram credits being an independent farmer gave him the flexibility to develop his singing career on his own time and terms.
This is a list of artists born in Trinidad and Tobago, ... (poet) (born 1933) M ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
Raoul Pantin (June 5, 1943 – January 15, 2015) was a Trinidad and Tobago journalist, editor, poet and playwright.He penned six plays during his career. Pantin survived the 1990 Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt and terrorist attack, in which he and other employees of the Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT) station were held hostage for six days. [1]
Olive Walke, MBE (21 December 1911 – 10 September 1969) was a Trinidadian musician and ethnomusicologist who was one of the first to make records of regional Caribbean folk songs. She founded the well-known choir, La Petite Musicale and directed it for many years.
Born in Point Fortin in 1932, Pope was a former school teacher who left a career working at Shell Oil to perform calypso music. [1] [2] In the 1950s, he played locally in his hometown, then began playing in San Fernando at the Southern Brigade Calypso Tent.
Alladin is the first known Indo-Trinidadian visual artist. [2] Author and historian Michael Anthony called his style "rather conventional". [ 5 ] In Trinidad and Tobago in the first decades after independence, formally trained artists had been educated in Europe, the United States, or Canada, and the accepted form of artistic expression was, in ...
Eric Merton Roach (3 November 1915 – 18 April 1974) was a Tobagonian poet and playwright. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He published some early writing under the pseudonym Merton Maloney . Life