Regarding its name, many refer to the fact that Lord Shorty initially referred to his musical hybrid as " solka ", representing the true " soul of calypso ", and the name was later changed to " soca " by a music journalist.

Soca's development includes its fusion of calypso, African music, cadence, and Indian musical instruments -- particularly the dholak, tabla and dhantal -- as demonstrated in Shorty's classic compositions " Ïndrani " and " Shanti Om ".

# Steelband-soca: Steel pans are types of a drum often used in soca and calypso music ; it became so popular that it became its own musical genre.

Occasionally, he varied the group's sound with more disparate musical influences, such as raga (" Fancy ", 1966 ), bossa nova (" No Return ", 1967 ) and calypso (" Monica ", 1968 ; " Apeman ", 1970 ; " Supersonic Rocket Ship ", 1972 ).

In the Broadway-theatre musical Jamaica ( 1957 ), Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg cleverly parodied " commercial ", Belafonte-style calypso.

Musicraft's catalog encompassed many different musical styles, including classical, folk, jazz, Latin, popular vocal, and calypso.

The songs on A Picture of Nectar explore a variety of musical genres, including jazz, country, calypso, rock and roll and neo-psychedelia.

Keb ' Mo ' started his musical career playing the steel drums and upright bass in a calypso band.

A calypso sounding version of the carol was featured on a Christmas album John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together and a loose, jazzy piano-based arrangement was featured in the musical score of A Charlie Brown Christmas.

The island's musical traditions also include steelpan, calypso, choral music, as well as an array of bagpipe music played by descendants of Irish and Scottish settlers ; the biggest bagpipe band on modern Bermuda is the Bermuda Islands Pipe Band.

Lucian popular music can be traced back to the 1940s, when calypso became a part of the island's musical culture.

Horn sections are an integral part of musical genres such as jazz, R & B, blues, funk, calypso, ska, soul music and gospel music.

The heart of the musical celebration has been calypso ; recently soca has replaced calypso as the most celebrated type of music.

Instead, songs instilled all musical manner and sources such as rock ‘ n roll, Broadway or calypso.

The style has been the predecessor of numerous modern Caribbean musical styles such as calypso, compas, zouk, Dominican merengue and many others.

* calypso: a musical or lyrical comment on something, particularly popular during Carnival.

Although the song was published in the United States with Amsterdam listed as the lyricist and Jeri Sullavan and Paul Baron as musical composers, the melody had been previously published as the work of Trinidadian calypso composer Lionel Belasco on a song titled “ L ' Année Passée ,” which was in turn based on a folksong from Martinique.

Their trademark sound is an upbeat form of calypso, reminiscent of what was popular in the Caribbean in the late 60's and early 70's, that samples liberally from Latin, funk, tuk and spouge musical styles.

The music theme extends to the wallpaper, pictures, and bedspreads in the guest rooms. Each pair has a separate musical theme: calypso music, jazz, rock, Broadway shows, and country music.

The musical form was devised by RaviJi, spiritual leader of the Hindu Prachar Kendra, as an Indo-Trinidadian counterpoint to calypso.

He developed a style that fused Parker with his own Jamaican musical sensibility-most notably the mento and calypso music he grew up with.

I generate Therapy was born like an adaptation of African rates ( soukous, highlife, mbquanga, juju ) with Antillean vibrations ( rap-raggareggae, Haitian compas, French Antillean zouk, soca and calypso ) and influences of descending music of the native and afrocolombians ( bullerengue, mapalé, zambapalo and small canoe ).

Discover America was a tribute to the islands of Trinidad and Tobago and to calypso music.

The second single was " Coconut ", a novelty calypso number featuring four characters ( the narrator, the brother, the sister, and the doctor ) all sung ( at Perry's suggestion ) in different voices by Nilsson.

It is thought that the name " calypso " was originally " kaiso ," which is now believed to come from Efik " ka isu " ' go on!

The official birth of calypso was 1912, when Lovey's String Band recorded the first identifiably calypso genre song while visiting New York City.

In 1914, the second calypso song was recorded, this time in Trinidad, by chantwell Julian Whiterose, better known as the Iron Duke and famous stick fighter.

He was one of the pioneers in spreading awareness of calypso beyond its birthplace in Trinidad and Tobago.

Lionel Belasco ( 1881 – c. June 24, 1967 ) was a prominent pianist, composer and bandleader, best known for his calypso recordings.

He is unusual as a calypsonian in the fact that his instrument was the piano, ( not exactly the best instrument for the calypso tent.

He became active in calypso in the mid-1930s, and was considered a country bumpkin by his contemporaries, because of his humble beginning.

However, the original version of the song ( which Amsterdam did not write ) was performed by a Trinidadian calypso singer named Lord Invader, and Amsterdam was subsequently involved in a copyright suit over the song, which dragged on until 1948.

In 1912, calypso was recorded for the first time and the following decade saw the arrival of calypso tent.

Belafonte, a Jamaican-American singing in American English, was by far the most popular internationally during this wave ( with his Calypso album, Belafonte was the first artist to sell a million copies ), but his music was also extensively criticized for watering down the sound of calypso.

Kitchener was by far the most popular of the Young Brigade calypsonians, and he helped popularize calypso in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

Mighty Sparrow's first hit was Jean and Dinah, celebrating the departure of American military forces from Trinidad ; the song launched a new generation of politically active calypso music, which soon became associated with the People's National Movement.

Roaring Lion was also a major part of this vanguard in calypso music, and he became known for a traditionalist style that he maintained throughout his career.

The most influential band in the development of cadence-lypso was Exile One ( based on the island of Guadeloupe ) in 1973 that combined cadence rampa and calypso.

Sierra Leonean palm wine music is known as maringa, and it was first popularized by Ebenezer Calendar & His Maringar Band, who used styles that came from freed slaves from the Caribbean, especially Trinidadian calypso.

Their music was a dance-oriented version of many kinds of Caribbean and Latin popular music, such as Cuban bolero, Brazilian samba, the merengue from the Dominican Republic, Trinidadian calypso, and American funk.

Soca is said to have been created in 1963 ( see 1963 in music ) by Ras Shorty I's " Clock and Dagger " from calypso music.

While the Trinidad-born steel drum is known as the official instrument of the Caribbean, its waning presence in soca music, along with its coopting by other nations, has many soca and calypso purists concerned.

The show's original pilot episode featured a calypso theme song by future film composer John Williams, and different lyrics.

Attila the Hun, Roaring Lion and Lord Invader were first, followed by Lord Kitchener, one of the longest-lasting calypso stars in history — he continued to release hit records until his death in 2000.

Early forms of calypso were also influenced by jazz such as Sans Humanitae.

In the 1950s, Wolcott started his professional music career by recording several calypso albums as a singer under the name " The Charmer ".

He also wrote the calypso Margarita, recorded by the Cuban singer Vicentico Valdés in New York in the sixties.

Lured by Decca Records, he travelled to New York City in 1941 with other calypsonians such as Roaring Lion and Atilla the Hun to make records and promote calypso music.

The music, which drew upon African ( Kaiso ) and French / European influences, arose as a means of communication among the enslaved Africans ; kaiso is still used today as a synonym for calypso in Trindad and some other islands, often by traditionalists, and is also used as a cry of encouragement for a performer, similar to bravo or olé.

Some songs were banned or censored by the British colonial government, and calypso became a method of underground communication and spreading anti-British information.

Originally featuring masquerade songs ( chanté mas ) and other local traditions, traditional Carnival, Mas Domnik, came to be dominated by imported calypso music and steel bands in the early 1960s ; calypso appealed to Carnival-goers because the lyrical focus on local news and gossip was similar to that of chanté mas, despite a rhythmic pattern and instrumentation which contrast sharply with traditional Dominican Mas Domnik music.

Hull is mentioned by name in the 1937 calypso song " FDR in Trinidad " popularized by Attila the Hun, and also by Ry Cooder on his 1972 album Into the Purple Valley.

Venezuelan calypso music ( including Calypso de El Callao ), imported from Trinidad in the 1880s by immigrants arriving during a gold rush, has its own distinctive rhythms and lyrical style.