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Shanto is a form of Guyanese music, related to both calypso and mento. [1] It became a major part of early popular music through its use in Guyanese vaudeville shows; songs are topical and light-hearted, often accompanied by a guitar. [2] The word "shanto" is a conflation of "shanty" - the term used in Guyana for work songs - and "calypso
Born in 1906, he grew up in the multi-ethnic Charlestown area of south Georgetown, British Guiana.As a child he joined in family shows put on by his sisters. He made his first stage appearance aged five, wrote his first songs aged 13, and then organised his own vaudeville-style group, the Merry Makers, who toured in Suriname.
The song's popularity has reached far beyond the band's; CCLI places the song among the 30 most-sung worship songs in the United States [1] and has been called a "modern worship classic". [2] According to Martin Smith, the author of the song: "That song just wrote itself in about five minutes. The same chords the whole way through the song.
On the strength of that one song, we did a five-year deal with them for five albums and they paid us a serious amount of money." [ 10 ] Despite impressing their new label with the track, Phonogram felt that it was not suitable for release as a single due to its length, and released " Life Is a Minestrone " as the first single from The Original ...
"5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years of Love)" is a 1970 song by The Presidents. It is the title track and first release from their album. The song was produced by Van McCoy.It reached number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100, number 5 on the R&B chart and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.
Suzannah Clark, a music professor at Harvard, connected the piece's resurgence in popularity to the harmonic structure, a common pattern similar to the romanesca.The harmonies are complex, but combine into a pattern that is easily understood by the listener with the help of the canon format, a style in which the melody is staggered across multiple voices (as in "Three Blind Mice"). [1]
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce proved they have a fairy tale type of love with a post-Super Bowl singalong to some of her biggest hits. Kelce ...
Love Story" is a popular song published in 1970, with music by Francis Lai and lyrics by Carl Sigman. The song was first introduced as an instrumental theme in the 1970 film Love Story after the film's distributor, Paramount Pictures , rejected the first set of lyrics that were written. [ 2 ]