Ras Shorty I

With his past due-’60s and 1970s recordings, Lord Shorty (given birth to: Garfield Blackman) set the foundations of soca, the Trinidadian musical style that blends Indian percussion and traditional calypso. His albums, Nice Music, released in 1974, and Limitless Vibration, released the next year, stay soca classics. Getting deeply spiritual in the first ’80s, Shorty changed into Rastafarianism and renamed himself Ras Shorty I. From that time, he turned to spiritually uplifting tunes that he collection to a fresh tempo that he known as “jamoo.” He continuing in this route until his loss of life on July 12, 2000, from multiple myelome, a bone tissue marrow malignancy. Shorty’s greatest achievement came soon before his loss of life. His anti-drug track “LOOK OUT My Kids,” released in 1997, was a global hit and continues to be translated and re-recorded in a number of languages.