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  2. A calypso artist born in Trinidad, Lord Shorty decided to infuse the rhythms of East India with that of West Africa. That music became soca which, as opposed to the socially-conscious calypso was ...

  3. Country Singers Who Went to Jail & Lived to Sing About It - AOL

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    Many country music fans recognize that songs about jail are a recurring theme within the genre. In fact, several country music albums focus solely on the experience of being incarcerated, moving ...

  4. Crazy (singer) - Wikipedia

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    Crazy was the first artist to sing a "Parang Soca" song (mixing soca and hymnal Latin music) in 1978. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] His debut album, Crazy's Super Album , was released in 1979 and sold over 35,000 copies in his home country.

  5. Denyse Plummer - Wikipedia

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    Denyse Burnadette Kirline Plummer HBM (8 November 1953 – 27 August 2023) [1] was a Trinidadian calypsonian and gospel singer. The child of a white father and a black mother, she initially faced significant prejudice in a genre traditionally seen as Afro-Caribbean, but was eventually recognised as a leading calypso performer.

  6. Billy Edd Wheeler - Wikipedia

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    Wheeler was born on December 9, 1932, in Boone County, West Virginia.He graduated from Warren Wilson College in 1953, and Berea College in 1955. [2] After serving as a student pilot in the Navy, he served as Alumni Director of Berea College.

  7. Ricardo Drue, soca singer renowned in the Caribbean and ... - AOL

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  8. KMC (musician) - Wikipedia

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    Ken Marlon Charles a.k.a. KMC (born 5 January 1971) is a soca artist from Trinidad. He is famous for songs like "Soul on Fire", "Soca Bashment", and "Bashment to Carnival". KMC is signed to the US-based record label Sequence Records. Considered to be one of Trinidad's top soca artists, KMC has over sixteen years experience in the music industry.

  9. Nailah Blackman - Wikipedia

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    Nailah Blackman (born 2 December 1997) is a Trinidadian singer and songwriter most strongly associated with the soca genre. Her grandfather, the late Garfield Blackman, also known as Lord Shorty or Ras Shorty I, invented the style of music known as 'jamoo' and is also credited with inventing soca [1] as a means of reinvigorating calypso music.