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Xtatik
Xtatik is a locally and well-known Trinidad and Tobago Soca band led by Machel Montano. History The band evolved from Pranasonic Express, which was formed in 1984 in Port of Spain.Thompson, Dave (2002) ''Reggae & Caribbean Music'', Backbeat Books, , p. 300-301 The original line-up was (then 9-year-old) Machel Montano (vocals), Joseph Rivers (guitar), Vincent Rivers (bass guitar), Derwin Vallie (keyboards), Sterling Paul (trombone), Oral Rodriguez (saxophone), Marlon Roach (trumpet), Rodney Daniel (trumpet), Gregory Pegus (drums), and Darryl Henry (percussion). The group became Xtatik in 1989. Their early albums ''Breaking Out'' (1990) and ''One Step Ahead'' (1991) were both locally successful, and the band had several hit singles in Trinidad & Tobago. In 1991 they recruited guitarist Roger George and moved to a sound that fused Soca and Dancehall. Several albums followed in this vein and the band won road march titles at carnivals in Caribana and Miami in 1994. In 1995 they suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machel Montano
Machel Jesus Montano (born 24 November 1974)Thompson, Dave (2002), ''Reggae & Soca Music'', Backbeat Books, , pp. 300–301. is a Trinidadian soca singer, actor, record producer and songwriter. Known for his high energy, fast-paced, and often unpredictable on-stage performances, he is one of the genre’s most popular artists. Music career Montano is the front-man of the soca band The HD Family. In 1987 he was the youngest finalist to ever win the Caribbean Song Festival. His career spans more than 30 years. Around 2012 he moved to the Los Angeles area. He is very well known in New York City, where he has had sold-out concerts in Madison Square Garden many times over. Machel is a six time international Soca Monarch. Early life Montano was born in Carenage (Northwestern Trinidad) on 24 November 1974 and his family moved to Siparia (Southwestern Trinidad), when he was very young. He attended Siparia Boys R.C., then Presentation College, a prestigious secondary school in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heavy Duty (Xtatik)
''Heavy Duty'' is an album released by popular Soca band Xtatik from Trinidad and Tobago in 1997. The album was considered one of the most successful Soca albums at the time of its release. In a 2004 interview, lead vocalist of the band Machel Montano claimed it was his favourite album of all time. The song ''Big Truck'' on the album won Trinidad's 1997 Annual Road March Competition for Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. Track listing #"Intro" #"Big Truck" #"Follow Yuh Partner" #"Winerboi" #"Calypso Nice" #"Tayee Tayee" #"J'Ouvert Girls" #"What They Say (They Say)" #"Pretty Gyal" #"No Carnival" #"Crowded" #"Music Farm" #"Outro" Vocals * Machel Montano - Lead Vocalist * Wayne Rodriguez - Vocalist * Darryl Henry (Farmer Nappy) - Vocalist * Vincent Rivers - Vocalist * Winston Bailey - Vocalist * Sean Caruth - Vocalist *Samuel Jack - Vocalist * Joseph Rivers - Vocalist *Richard Felix - Vocalist * Nicholas Antoine - Vocalist * Errol Singh - Vocalist Musicians *Bass - Vincent Rivers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charge (Soca Album)
''Charge'' is an album by Trinidadian soca artist Machel Montano and his band Xtatik released in 1998. Track listing # "Mad Bull Intro" # "Toro Toro (Original)" # "Xtatik Prayer (Interlude)" # "Stand Up" - (featuring Andre Tanker) # "Footsteps" # "Feeling 2 Fete" # "Jeunes Agape (Interlude)" # "Set My Music Free" # "Trumpet Man" # "Pump D Iron" # "Harry Krishna" # "Vendors" # "Daddy Axe" # "We Like It" - (featuring Lord Nelson) # "Rag Singers (Interlude)" # "Lonely Rag" # "Mad Bull Body" - (featuring Breeze) # "Hard Working Dog" # "Toro Toro (Remix)" - (featuring Shaggy Shaggy may refer to: People *Shaggy (musician) (born 1968), Jamaican American reggae rapper and singer *Shaggy 2 Dope, half of the hip hop, horrorcore band Insane Clown Posse *Shaggy Flores (born 1973), Nuyorican poet, writer and African diaspora ...) 1998 albums Machel Montano albums {{1990s-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Any Minute Now (Soca Album)
''Any Minute Now'' is an album by Trinidadian Soca artist Machel Montano and his band Xtatik released in 1999. The album features guest appearances from Beenie Man on "Outa Space", Burning Flames on "Showdown (Band Meet Band)", and Red Rat on "Rubber Waist".Thompson, Dave (2002) ''Reggae & Caribbean Music'', Backbeat Books, , p. 301Guilbault, Jocelyne (2007) ''Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics'', Chicago University Press, , p. 311Best, Curwen (2004) ''Culture @ the Cutting Edge: Tracking Caribbean Popular Music'', University of the West Indies Press, , p. 145 A promotional video for "Outa Space" was made featuring Montano and Beenie Man as 'Men in Black' in search of two female aliens. Track listing #"Close Encounter (Interlude)" #"Outa Space (UFOs)" - (featuring Beenie Man) #"Big Phat Fish" #"We Sound (Ba Dang)" #"Soca" #"With Or Without You" - (featuring Walker) #"Mocking Meh" #"February" #"Rubber Waist" - (featuring Red Rat Wallace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here Comes The Band
''Here Comes the Band'' is an album by Trinidadian Soca artist Machel Montano and his band Xtatik released in 2000. The album's 22 tracks feature different singers on each, with the album covering a diverse range of styles.Birchmeier, Jason " ''Here Comes the Band'' Review, Allmusic, retrieved 2010-10-30 Allmusic writer Jason Birchmeier gave it a 3-star review, while in ''World Music: The Rough Guide'', the authors view that "the 10 or so tracks that really work are great".Broughton, Simon; Ellingham, Mark; McConnachie, James; Duane, Orla (2000) ''World Music: The Rough Guide - Volume 2: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific'', Rough Guides, , p. 526 Track listing #"Millennium (Intro)" #"Here Comes the Band" - Machel Montano #"Manners" - Farmer Nappy & Derwin Vallie #"Water Flowing" - Machel Montano (featuring Farmer Nappy) #"Drag Yuh Bow" - Peter C. Lewis #"Break Bottle" - Farmer Nappy (featuring Denise Belfon) #"Kiki" - Peter C. Lewis (featuring Lexxus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Of Spain
Port of Spain ( Spanish: ''Puerto España''), officially the City of Port of Spain (also stylized Port-of-Spain), is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago and the third largest municipality, after Chaguanas and San Fernando. The city has a municipal population of 37,074 (2011 census), an urban population of 81,142 (2011 estimate) and a transient daily population of 250,000. It is located on the Gulf of Paria, on the northwest coast of the island of Trinidad and is part of a larger conurbation stretching from Chaguaramas in the west to Arima in the east with an estimated population of 600,000. The city serves primarily as a retail and administrative centre and it has been the capital of the island since 1757. It is also an important financial services centre for the CaribbeanCIA World Factbook Tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinidad And Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much smaller islands, it is situated south of Grenada and off the coast of northeastern Venezuela. It shares maritime boundaries with Barbados to the northeast, Grenada to the northwest and Venezuela to the south and west. Trinidad and Tobago is generally considered to be part of the West Indies. The island country's capital is Port of Spain, while its largest and most populous city is San Fernando. The island of Trinidad was inhabited for centuries by Indigenous peoples before becoming a colony in the Spanish Empire, following the arrival of Christopher Columbus, in 1498. Spanish governor José María Chacón surrendered the island to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby in 1797. Trinidad and Tobago were ceded to Britain in 1802 under the Treaty of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soca Music
Soca music is a genre of music defined by Lord Shorty, its inventor, as the "Soul of Calypso", which has influences of African and East Indian rhythms. It was originally spelt "sokah" by its inventor but through an error in a local newspaper when reporting on the new music it was erroneously spelt "soca"; Lord Shorty confirmed the error but chose to leave it that way to avoid confusion. It is a genre of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s and developed into a range of styles during the 1980s and after. Soca was initially developed by Lord Shorty in an effort to revive traditional calypso, the popularity of which had been flagging amongst younger generations in Trinidad due to the rise in popularity of reggae from Jamaica and soul and funk from the United States. Soca is an offshoot of Calypso/ Kaiso, with influences from East Indian rhythms and hooks. Soca has evolved since the 1980s primarily through musicians from various Anglophone Caribbean cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calypso Music
Calypso is a style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to the mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century. Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 18th century. It is characterized by highly rhythmic and harmonic vocals, and was historically most often sung in a French creole and led by a griot. As calypso developed, the role of the griot became known as a ''chantuelle'' and eventually, '' calypsonian''. As English replaced "patois" ( Antillean creole) as the dominant language, calypso migrated into English, and in so doing it attracted more attention from the government. It allowed the masses to challenge the doings of the unelected Governor and Legislative Council, and the elected town councils of Port of Spain and San Fernando. Calypso continued to play an important role in pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dancehall
Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s. Initially, dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots style, which had dominated much of the 1970s.Barrow, Steve & Dalton, Peter (2004) "The Rough Guide to Reggae, 3rd edn.", Rough Guides, In the mid-1980s, digital instrumentation became more prevalent, changing the sound considerably, with digital dancehall (or "ragga") becoming increasingly characterized by faster rhythms. Key elements of dancehall music include its extensive use of Jamaican Patois rather than Jamaican standard English and a focus on the track instrumentals (or " riddims"). Dancehall saw initial mainstream success in Jamaica in the 1980s, and by the 1990s, it became increasingly popular in Jamaican diaspora communities. In the 2000s, dancehall experienced worldwide mainstream success, and by the 2010s, it began to heavily influence the work of established Western artists and producers, which has helped to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caribana
The Toronto Caribbean Carnival, formerly known as Caribana, is a festival of Caribbean culture and traditions held each summer in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is a pan-Caribbean Carnival event and has been billed as North America's largest street festival, frequented by over 1.3 million visitors each year for the festival's final parade and an overall attendance of 2 million. Beginning in July, the multi-week festivities lead up to the parade which occurs over the Simcoe Day long weekend which occurs on the first weekend in August. The festival also coincides with August 1, which is also known as Emancipation Day for U.S. and Caribbean people starting in 1800. The main stakeholders of the events are the Toronto Mas' Bands Association, the Organization of Calypso Performing Artistes, and the Ontario Steelpan Association. Events Several events occur over the course of the festivities celebrating Caribbean culture. While the Parade of Bands is the most-well kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miami
Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a coastal metropolis and the county seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, United States. With a population of 442,241 at the 2020 census, it is the second-most populous city in Florida and the eleventh-most populous city in the Southeastern United States. The Miami metropolitan area is the ninth largest in the U.S. with a population of 6.138 million in 2020. The city has the third-largest skyline in the U.S. with over 300 high-rises, 58 of which exceed . Miami is a major center and leader in finance, commerce, culture, arts, and international trade. Miami's metropolitan area is by far the largest urban economy in Florida and the 12th largest in the U.S., with a GDP of $344.9 billion as of 2017. According to a 2018 UBS study of 77 world cities, Miami is the second richest city in the U.S. and third richest globally in purchasing power. Miami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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