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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 …
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The rhythms of calypso as well as the drone-heavy music of East India were combined to generate the energetic musical cross, soca, by Trinidad-born vocalist Lord Shorty (born Garfield Blackman). Throughout a 1979 interview with Carnival Journal, Lord Shorty recalled, “I had been looking for something new as the chat …
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