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The Carnival Road March is the musical composition played most often at the "judging points" along the parade route during a Caribbean Carnival. Originating as part of the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival , the term has been applied to other Caribbean carnivals.
The 1976 hit "Tourist Leggo", which placed second at Trinidad and Tobago's Road March to Lord Kitchener's "Flag Woman", [6] created such a stir during Trinidad's Carnival that it forced that country's authorities to initiate a ban on all foreign tunes from the Road March competition. [2] It did, however, win the Antiguan Road March. [1]
"Soca Baptist" won him his first Carnival Road March Monarch award in 1980. [1] He won the annual T&T Carnival Road March title ten times (in 1980, 1981 and 1983 he won under the moniker Blue Boy, and as Superblue in 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2000, 2013 and 2018).
The carnival soon featured dancing by men and women in masks. During the mid- and late-1800s, the colonial government tried various ways to suppress Carnival and Carnival festivities. [ 26 ] These prohibitions resulted in civil disorder, including the Canboulay riots of 1881 and 1884.
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In 1956, Sparrow won Trinidad's Carnival Road March and Calypso King competitions with his most famous song, "Jean and Dinah" [1] (also known as "Yankees Gone", a song celebrating the departure of US troops from Trinidad). [8] A live performance of "Yankees Gone" was included in the album Jump Up Carnival in Trinidad. [8]
She's yet to win either Trinidad's Carnival Road March or Soca Monarch titles, although coming close on occasion. Despite this, she's become an icon of soca, renowned for her pop-oriented tunes incorporating both world and fusion music. [5] During both 2014 and 2015 Destra won Best International Act at the Black Canadian Awards. [6]
He moved to Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad in 1943 where he joined the Roving Brigade.He was spotted singing "Mary I am Tired and Disgusted" (aka "Green Fig") with the group by Johnny Khan, who invited him to perform in his Victory Tent, where he met fellow calypsonian Growling Tiger, who decided Roberts should from that point be known as Lord Kitchener.