It’s finally there: the “official” Soca Warriors song, the soundtrack for the soccer team of Trinidad & Tobago. As mentioned earlier the song wasn’t produced by one of the countless talents of the country - no, it comes out of the UK. It is not really soca, it’s more a boring popsong with some 80s-soca flavour. But have a listen on your own on myspace. The decision to pick this tune make me wonder if we’ll see any up-to-date Soca artists in Germany this June.
Btw anyone remember this tune?
[via WorldCupBlog]
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Archive for April, 2006
As we move on in the 2006 Carnival calendar, we have another festival going on in April: Virgin Island Carnival. A schedule is available as pdf. The main theme is “Glamour and Glitz for Carnival 2006″ with a posthumous honoring of the late singer “Daddy” Friday. [via SupaDuppa]
Technorati Tags: virgin islands Jamaica Carnival is on.. check this calender of the official website.
See also Jamaica Gleaner.
Now the success story gets his own comic strip: The publishing house The Heroes Foundation will release a comic book with the title “The Road to Germany 2006 - Issue 1 - Collector’s Item” this April. The comic describes the whole qualification round from the eye of a long time Soca Warrior fan.
[Trinidad Express, via World Cup Blog]
Since today there is not much information about which Trinbagonian artists follow their team to Germany. Yesterday T&T’s Sports Minister Boynes confirmed that the steel and percussion bands Laventille Rhythm Section and Woodbrook Playboyz will accompanying the Soca Warriors in June.
[Trinidad Express]
The producer Kubiyashi aka Non Fiction Recordings from St. Vincent, who gave us the Lava Slide Riddim last year, has a new tune out: Too many badmin by Skinny Fabulous featuring the Jamaican artists Beenie Man, Jah Cure and Fantom Mojah. A remix of this tune will be available soon on Kubiyashi’s website.
At the Copyright Music Organization (COTT) members’ meeting Roadmarch winner and Soca Monarch 2006 spoke on the theme “From Songwriting to Royalties”. In his comments he said that the radio DJs are to blame for CD piracy:
Technorati Tags: soca piracy Trinidad“I’ll be real, here – the radio stations – the DJs. I’ll tell you, I released “Wine Down Low” one Friday morning on a radio station and by midday, I was walking up Fredrick Street and I heard my song playing on a pirate’s cart.”
