The Addictive Sound Of Soca Music
Have you ever danced to soca music? If you haven’t then you haven’t lived, my friend. Even if you don’t consider yourself a dancer in any way shape or form, sweet soca music is guaranteed to turn you into a booty shaking monster for hours upon end. It’s addictive, fun and just a little bit different from your average party music. Drop a fine soca tune into a set at a house party and people go wild or just plain silly. So, where does soca music come from and who brought it into existence? Well, we have the Caribbean and a fine fellow called Lord Shorty to thank for this. For the record, he was not a real Lord, and at a towering 6ft three he was definitely not short. What he was however, was a musical pioneer. Born Garfield Blackman in Trinidad in October 1941, he later changed his name for the stage name Lord Shorty and eventually to Ras Shorty I. Lord Shorty, who became popular on the calypso scene in the Caribbean, took traditional calypso music and combined it with ...