Archive for November, 2007

BajanTube

Bajan music and culture has a new (visual) home: BajanTube.com
Many music videos and live footage has been uploaded so far, more to come.

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Week review

Eddie Charles, former singer of Traffik and Tripple X, seems now singer in the band JMC 3veni. The Trinidad band Invazion says that they sell 200 000 copies of their compilations. Bunji Garlin is jumping on the soca classics remake train and released Firey, original sung by Maestro.

Problem Child: secret agent and party animal

We Magazin Online has an article about the N.Y/Vincean artist Johnny Fontainne aka Problem Child. Problem Child became known this year with his St. Vincent & Grenadines 2007 roadmarch “Party animal”, which is based on the popular Kassav song “Zouk la le sel medicament nou ni”. But he is not a newcomer - last year he had also a big tune with Kevin Lyttle, produced by the Great Zeee who also did the power soca riddim for “Somebody get mad”, probably the biggest Problem Child hit in Europe.

Read the full article here.

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Digicel reveales this year’s Rising Star.

Digicel’s newest Rising Star is the dominican Tarina Simon. She competed with Antiguan Daina Barnes, as crowd favourite from early on in the competition and walked away with 10 000 US$ and a recording deal with CRS Music.

The “reveal show” featured last year’s winner Kyron Baptiste who perfomed together with Peter Ram Ram’s tune ”Woman By my Side”.

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Chippin’ (wid me own woman) Video

New and first video ever by soca artist Farmer Nappy, former member of Xtatik. His “Chippin”, produced by the Red Boyz, was a major hit last Cropover. Now here comes the video, shot on various locations in Barbados.

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