Drupatee Ramgoonai was born in Penal, Trinidad. She started singing alongside her mother & in the te...
Drupatee Ramgoonai was born in Penal, Trinidad. She started singing alongside her mother & in the temples at a young age then went on to learn Classical at the feet of her trainer Ustad James Ramsawak a vetran in the field. She also gained exposure on Mastana Bahar & the Indian cultural pageant winning the local song category in 1983 & 1984 respectively. Her repertoire back then included local classical, bhajans, local songs & film songs. She also had some formal vocal training in Indian Classical music from classes under the well acclaimed Professor Adesh.
Drupatee recorded her first crossover tune in 1987 entitled Chutney Soca & gained moderate success in the calypso tents. The following year she had her mega hit Mr Bissessar (Roll up de tassa) which brought her international acclaim and served as the nursery for this genre of music called CHUTNEY SOCA resulting in a commercial market being created for this type of music as well. She was consistent for many years with hits such as Pepper, Hotter than a chulha, Careless Driver, Motilal, tassawalley, Manzalina etc & even the Monster hit Real Unity with Machel Montano. Some of her more recent contributions include: Mohana bina Gowna, Doh beat yuh wife, Parosin Maco-ing, D wedding song, Chutney Soca Wine, Violin etc.
Drupatee has won Nafieta awards & various trophies plus other awards for her unmatched contribution to Chutney Soca Music. She is the regarded as the Chutney Soca Queen for the blending of these musical styles were the messages in some of her songs like Chutney Soca, Hotter than a chulha & Special Brew. In recent years Drupatee has even started doing soca parang at Christmas time with songs such as Chutney Parang & Fruit cake.
She created history as being the first woman of East Indian Descent to sing Calypso/Soca & almost copped the Road March Title in T&T in 1988 coming second in the race. Drupatee is well known throughout the world for her hot & spicy Chutney Soca performances. She has performed throughout the Caribbean, North America, Europe & even India alongside many internationally renowned stars. Up to this day Drupatee continues to realease tasteful music & do various performances across the globe and is still a force to be reckoned with.
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DRUPATEE RAMGOONAI - NAGARA (tassa REMIX) 2010
Latest Chutney music
Drupatee Ra...
DRUPATEE RAMGOONAI - NAGARA (tassa REMIX) 2010
Latest Chutney music
Drupatee Ramgoonai was born in Penal, Trinidad. She started singing alongside her mother & in the temples at a young age then went on to learn Classical at the feet of her trainer Ustad James Ramsawak a vetran in the field. She also gained exposure on Mastana Bahar & the Indian cultural pageant winning the local song category in 1983 & 1984 respectively. Her repertoire back then included local classical, bhajans, local songs & film songs. She also had some formal vocal training in Indian Classical music from classes under the well acclaimed Professor Adesh.
Drupatee recorded her first crossover tune in 1987 entitled Chutney Soca & gained moderate success in the calypso tents. The following year she had her mega hit Mr Bissessar (Roll up de tassa) which brought her international acclaim and served as the nursery for this genre of music called CHUTNEY SOCA resulting in a commercial market being created for this type of music as well. She was consistent for many years with hits such as Pepper, Hotter than a chulha, Careless Driver, Motilal, tassawalley, Manzalina etc & even the Monster hit Real Unity with Machel Montano. Some of her more recent contributions include: Mohana bina Gowna, Doh beat yuh wife, Parosin Maco-ing, D wedding song, Chutney Soca Wine, Violin etc.
Drupatee has won Nafieta awards & various trophies plus other awards for her unmatched contribution to Chutney Soca Music. She is the regarded as the Chutney Soca Queen for the blending of these musical styles were the messages in some of her songs like Chutney Soca, Hotter than a chulha & Special Brew. In recent years Drupatee has even started doing soca parang at Christmas time with songs such as Chutney Parang & Fruit cake.
She created history as being the first woman of East Indian Descent to sing Calypso/Soca & almost copped the Road March Title in T&T in 1988 coming second in the race. Drupatee is well known throughout the world for her hot & spicy Chutney Soca performances. She has performed throughout the Caribbean, North America, Europe & even India alongside many internationally renowned stars. Up to this day Drupatee continues to realease tasteful music & do various performances across the globe and is still a force to be reckoned with.
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.Neeshan Prabhoo aka The Hitman
DATE OF BIRTH : APRIL 16th 1978
Neeshan Prabhoo began singing film songs at around 16yrs as an hobby, until he tried his talent in chutney, producing his first and very successful hit Dont Hold Me Back this mega hit came out in 1997 which lead to the artiste touring the Caribbean and the rest of the world where chutney soca is enjoyed, he did a few more songs after, which enjoyed a fair response, he then took a break from singing to concentrate on his personal life.
In October 2003 he did an album entitled Another Hit by the Hitman this album was released around May of 2004, on this album one can find the biggest Chutney Soca tune of 2005 carnival, More Rum for Me better know as listen Mr. Chankar. The song can also be found on a Cd entiltled Trini Bashment.
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Trinidad chutney Queen -Drupatee Ramgoonai
UK soca Queen - Alison Hinds.
Drupatee Ramgoonai was ...
Trinidad chutney Queen -Drupatee Ramgoonai
UK soca Queen - Alison Hinds.
Drupatee Ramgoonai was born in Penal, Trinidad. She started singing alongside her mother & in the temples at a young age then went on to learn Classical at the feet of her trainer Ustad James Ramsawak a vetran in the field. She also gained exposure on Mastana Bahar & the Indian cultural pageant winning the local song category in 1983 & 1984 respectively. Her repertoire back then included local classical, bhajans, local songs & film songs. She also had some formal vocal training in Indian Classical music from classes under the well acclaimed Professor Adesh.
Drupatee recorded her first crossover tune in 1987 entitled Chutney Soca & gained moderate success in the calypso tents. The following year she had her mega hit Mr Bissessar (Roll up de tassa) which brought her international acclaim and served as the nursery for this genre of music called CHUTNEY SOCA resulting in a commercial market being created for this type of music as well. She was consistent for many years with hits such as Pepper, Hotter than a chulha, Careless Driver, Motilal, tassawalley, Manzalina etc & even the Monster hit Real Unity with Machel Montano. Some of her more recent contributions include: Mohana bina Gowna, Doh beat yuh wife, Parosin Maco-ing, D wedding song, Chutney Soca Wine, Violin etc.
Drupatee has won Nafieta awards & various trophies plus other awards for her unmatched contribution to Chutney Soca Music. She is the regarded as the Chutney Soca Queen for the blending of these musical styles were the messages in some of her songs like Chutney Soca, Hotter than a chulha & Special Brew. In recent years Drupatee has even started doing soca parang at Christmas time with songs such as Chutney Parang & Fruit cake.
She created history as being the first woman of East Indian Descent to sing Calypso/Soca & almost copped the Road March Title in T&T in 1988 coming second in the race. Drupatee is well known throughout the world for her hot & spicy Chutney Soca performances. She has performed throughout the Caribbean, North America, Europe & even India alongside many internationally renowned stars. Up to this day Drupatee continues to realease tasteful music & do various performances across the globe and is still a force to be reckoned with.
Alison Hinds (born 1 June 1970) is a Bajan female soca artist based in the Caribbean island of Barbados.
She is one of the most popular soca singers in the world and has unofficially been given the nickname the "Queen of Soca". She has produced many popular songs that top charts even in countries which do not widely listen to soca.Alison Hinds was born in London, England. At the age of eleven Hinds' mother and father separated, after which Hinds and her mother moved back to their hometown in Barbados, where she continued to live until today.Currently Alison Hinds lives with her family, husband Edward Walcott and daughter Saharan (born 4 May 2004), on a privately owned horse farm, which her husband manages, in Barbados. She has her own band, "The Alison Hinds Show". This band was formed in 2005 when Hinds returned to the soca scene with the hit song "Roll It Gyal"
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Rikki Jai is ah Trinidadian chutney-soca artiste born Samraj Jaimungal in Friendship Village, San Fe...
Rikki Jai is ah Trinidadian chutney-soca artiste born Samraj Jaimungal in Friendship Village, San Fernando.
The prince of soca chutney, his highness Rikki Jai. Samraj "Rikki" Jai is the most successful crossover entertainer in the world. He has won the Carib Soca Chutney Monarch competition too many times to count, and has been the first Indian performer to make his mark on the soca charts with many different hit tunes. Most recently, he's known for his super hit throughout the soca and chutney universe for his song, Mor Tor. Mor Tor was almost a road march contender for the 2004 carnival season and was so popular that superstar Machel Montano also teamed up with his highness to remix the song.
Rikki Jai is also known for his past super chart topers like Scorpion, Dulahin, de River Lime and the song he broke into the scene with, Sumintra. Rikki Jai is unlike all other artists as he was the first to brake down the barrier, and allow space for 'Indian" soca entertainers to be recognized on the same stage as all the other top artists, although to this day no one has been able to reach the level at which Rikki has achieved success. None the less, he's still and always will be the true Prince of Soca Chutney music.
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The Mighty Trini - Curry Tabanca 1987 ( Robert Elias )
The Mighty Trini - Curry Tabanca 1987 ( Robert Elias )
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Raymond Ramnarine - RUM -2008
Dil-E-Nadan Indian Orchestra is from Trinidad
Raymond Ramnarine...
Raymond Ramnarine - RUM -2008
Dil-E-Nadan Indian Orchestra is from Trinidad
Raymond Ramnarine - Leader, Arranger, Vocalist
Raymond started his music career at the tender age of 9 years. His love for Indian music has grown tremendously, ever since the early days of Dil-E-Nadaan. In 1985 and 1988 he toured Canada with Dil-E-Nadaan. In 1989 he composed the test-piece "Dostaana" for Saaj Sammelan. Raymond started his 'singing' career then and won the Nationwide Duet Singing Competition together with Saraswatie Maharaj.
In 1991 he toured Jamaica and entered Mastana Bahar and attained 1st place in the Preliminaries and Semi Finals, and 2dn place in the Gtand Final. Also appeared that year at the Indian Cultural Pageant to serenade the queens.
Raymond is today regarded as our most electryfying stage performer. He continues to attract endless attention whenever he performs and is still regarded as our heartrob. The band has just returned from a tour of Holland and Raymond was as usual the pick of the artists amongst many all over the world. He is looking forward to the Father's Day Spectacular with a performance that will have patrons talking for weeks about the event.
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Brand new song from Anil Bheem .
Anil performs as one of the top singers and musicians with most of...
Brand new song from Anil Bheem .
Anil performs as one of the top singers and musicians with most of the top bands in Trinidad and Tobago — J.M.C. Triveni, D. Rampersad Indian Art Orchestra, Dil-e-nadaan, Beena Sangeet and T&TEC Guyatones. He started in music with his family band, Khazana. His mother Premattee Bheem is also well known singer.
Anil sings film, chutney, bhangra and a host of other types of Indian songs. Some of his popular hits include Honeymoon, No Chutney Again, Bahena Bahena, Chook Chook and Jana Jana. He performs regularly in Miami, New York, Toronto and Guyana. He is presently the host of the popular Drive Time Show on 103FM. Catch the Rhythms.
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Nisha Bissambhar - Vocalist
Sally Sagram
Nisha Bissambhar at the age of 15 made a decision that f...
Nisha Bissambhar - Vocalist
Sally Sagram
Nisha Bissambhar at the age of 15 made a decision that forever changed her life - a decision to sing. At that point she was still at high-school - a (forth form) student of the Lakshmi Girls Hindu College. From then on Nisha has continued following up her dream as a singer and since then has achieved nearly all heights of her singing.
In 1995 Nisha entered the first ever series of The Children of Mastana where she placed 2nd on a number of consecutive times. A year later she was a grand finalist in Mastana Bahar where she was placed 6th. She was later awarded The Contribution to Youth Excellence by Jamal Mohammed for Children of Mastana. She was then given the task amongst other top local young artistes to judge for the competition. This was done for two years.
She went on to successfully complete her studies at her High School with distinctions in English Language subjects. She continued her education upliftment by assigning herself to a number of studies, mainly computer literacy. She worked at the Republic Bank of Trinidad and Toabgo and at present she is currently pursueing her dream as a radio broadcaster and is a trainee at Radio 90.1 FM.
Nisha does a variety of songs, ranging from Indian to English Soca to Reggae and even a little bit of Rock. She says she loves versatility but with it comes sincere devotion and sometimes even hard work.
In 1999, Nisha's song The Scorpion took Trinidad by storm and was eventually voted as the 2nd best song of the Millennium. She also did three CDs - Music to Make you Dance; Chutney Y2K Virus and High Energy, all of which were done together with her home band.
She toured the US and thrilled audiences with her ability to 'change her voice' in accordance of a particular song. Nisha also works in collaboration with Pretangeli's, where the ads are either written or performed by her. Nisha is the only solo female singer at present in the band.
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DIL-E-NADAN & DR.SEALES - KUBIJALKI
DIL-E-NADAN & DR.SEALES - KUBIJALKI
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Anthony Moses Davis (born August 22, 1973[1] in Kingston, Jamaica), better known by his stage name B...
Anthony Moses Davis (born August 22, 1973[1] in Kingston, Jamaica), better known by his stage name Beenie Man, is a popular reggae entertainer and a well established dancehall artist. He is the younger brother of reggae artist Kirk "Little Kirk" Davis
Nisha Bissambhar at the age of 15 made a decision that forever changed her life - a decision to sing. At that point she was still at high-school - a (forth form) student of the Lakshmi Girls Hindu College. From then on Nisha has continued following up her dream as a singer and since then has achieved nearly all heights of her singing.
In 1995 Nisha entered the first ever series of The Children of Mastana where she placed 2nd on a number of consecutive times. A year later she was a grand finalist in Mastana Bahar where she was placed 6th. She was later awarded The Contribution to Youth Excellence by Jamal Mohammed for Children of Mastana. She was then given the task amongst other top local young artistes to judge for the competition. This was done for two years.
She went on to successfully complete her studies at her High School with distinctions in English Language subjects. She continued her education upliftment by assigning herself to a number of studies, mainly computer literacy. She worked at the Republic Bank of Trinidad and Toabgo and at present she is currently pursueing her dream as a radio broadcaster and is a trainee at Radio 90.1 FM.
In 1999, Nisha's song The Scorpion took Trinidad by storm and was eventually voted as the 2nd best song of the Millennium. She also did three CDs - Music to Make you Dance; Chutney Y2K Virus and High Energy, all of which were done together with her home band.
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DJ PHAZE - Radica .De Hoe
Radica Paraboo
When Kenneth Salick went down on his knees at Skinner Par...
DJ PHAZE - Radica .De Hoe
Radica Paraboo
When Kenneth Salick went down on his knees at Skinner Park, San Fernando, and poured his heart out, the subject of his love, Radica Paraboo, was watching him on television.
"I cried," she said in an interview on Monday.
She said he reminded her of the young man who courted her in the village where they both lived.
Salick, who composed the song "Radica" when she walked out of his life 16 years ago, took the Chutney Soca Monarch crown valued at $200,000 with a powerful rendition of the song during the finals held at Skinner Park, San Fernando, on Saturday night.
Though separated, the couple share a love that has endured from childhood through the years.
Radica said she had only good wishes for Salick and is "really happy for him".
She said, "I saw him while he was coming home after winning the competition but we did not get a chance to talk."
The two fell in love during childhood. Radica recalled that Salick "used to ride his bicycle up and down the road and we began talking to each other".
Salick summoned the courage to visit the Paraboo family and meet her grandfather. The teenager was pregnant at 17 and went to live with Salick. In the years that followed she gave birth to seven children.
She said she left because Salick was involved with another woman.
He took the children and moved to Eastern Main Road, Sangre Chiquito.
Left alone, Radica, 40, entered a relationship and had two other children while Salick fathered another child with the new woman in his life.
They are both single again and they both live separately in the same village at Melau, Vega de Oropouche, Sangre Grande.
Since the release of the song "Radica", there have been two replies in the chutney soca arena.
Brandstec singer, Rawytee Ramroop, sang an Asha Gajadhar composition saying, "Since I left you, I am so happy. You didn't say how you ill treat me, I had to leave."
Gayatones singer Devika Ram's reply titled "Wrong Name" suggested that Salick called her Radica instead of Devika and "that was why I went to Tobago."
They were both wrong.
Celebrations are in order and the Salicks are rejoicing. Radica Paraboo included!
Kenneth Salick said ---
First love is hard to forget, or so the saying goes.
It certainly wins the day for the chutney soca couple who, after 16 years of separation, continue to nurture warm feeling for each other, they said.
Radica Paraboo, who inspired her forlorn ex-husband to pen the song that won him the Chutney Soca Monarch title this year, will share in the $200,000 prize money.
Suddenly a celebrity, Kenneth Salick said he will share the prize with the mother of his seven children.
"I want to give she something," he said yesterday. "Ah doh know how much it going to be as yet."
Salick, 46, of Eastern Main Road, Sangre Grande, wrote the song after Paraboo left him in 1993.
"Is because of her I wrote the song and she deserve to share in the prize," he said.
He took the title from ten finalists at Skinner Park, San Fernando, last Saturday night, when the public gave him 11,625 text votes to win.
Meantime, fame is opening doors for him.
Salick has applied for a passport and will travel abroad as soon as Carnival is over to perform with Dil-e-Nadan. And he continues to perform nightly at venues across the country.
Growing up in Sangre Grande, Salick began singing 20 years ago with the Sangeet Stars Orchestra and joined several bands over the years. In 2000, he recorded his first song, "We Are One", followed by "Ram, Sita Ram". So far, he has recorded 15 songs with Zaheer "Big Rich" Khan at the Pungalunks factory in Couva and three with the Gayatones orchestra.
His songs include "A Woman in Meh Village", "Hard Wine", "The Bamboo", "Coalpot", "Tune de Thing", and others.
With a tour of the US in the works, Salick said he hopes to stay in the limelight for a long time. He has composed over 100 songs and has a CD on sale.
"The first thing I want to do with the prize money is to buy a house," he said.
Paraboo said she will use whatever money she is given by her ex-lover to buy a small house. She lives in a rented apartment and receives a monthly public assistance cheque.
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Raymond Ramnarine - Moonlight Lady
Dil-E-Nadan Indian Orchestra is from Trinidad
Raymond Ramna...
Raymond Ramnarine - Moonlight Lady
Dil-E-Nadan Indian Orchestra is from Trinidad
Raymond Ramnarine - Leader, Arranger, Vocalist
Raymond started his music career at the tender age of 9 years. His love for Indian music has grown tremendously, ever since the early days of Dil-E-Nadaan. In 1985 and 1988 he toured Canada with Dil-E-Nadaan. In 1989 he composed the test-piece "Dostaana" for Saaj Sammelan. Raymond started his 'singing' career then and won the Nationwide Duet Singing Competition together with Saraswatie Maharaj.
In 1991 he toured Jamaica and entered Mastana Bahar and attained 1st place in the Preliminaries and Semi Finals, and 2dn place in the Gtand Final. Also appeared that year at the Indian Cultural Pageant to serenade the queens.
Raymond is today regarded as our most electryfying stage performer. He continues to attract endless attention whenever he performs and is still regarded as our heartrob. The band has just returned from a tour of Holland and Raymond was as usual the pick of the artists amongst many all over the world. He is looking forward to the Father's Day Spectacular with a performance that will have patrons talking for weeks about the event.
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DIL-E-NADAN
Raymond Ramnarine - Leader, Arranger, Vocalist
Raymond started his music career at t...
DIL-E-NADAN
Raymond Ramnarine - Leader, Arranger, Vocalist
Raymond started his music career at the tender age of 9 years. His love for Indian music has grown tremendously, ever since the early days of Dil-E-Nadaan. In 1985 and 1988 he toured Canada with Dil-E-Nadaan. In 1989 he composed the test-piece "Dostaana" for Saaj Sammelan. Raymond started his 'singing' career then and won the Nationwide Duet Singing Competition together with Saraswatie Maharaj.
In 1991 he toured Jamaica and entered Mastana Bahar and attained 1st place in the Preliminaries and Semi Finals, and 2dn place in the Gtand Final. Also appeared that year at the Indian Cultural Pageant to serenade the queens.
Raymond is today regarded as our most electryfying stage performer. He continues to attract endless attention whenever he performs and is still regarded as our heartrob.
Rennie Ramnarine
Rennie Ramnarine learned to play the Drum Machine, Trumpet, Syntersizer, Guitar, and Bass Guitar by himself . He went to music school to learn to play the trumpet and to learn to read and write music. He has been playing music for the past 10 years, and played music for Hari Om Sharan and Nandani Sahran. Also Salima Mohammed of Dam Dama Dam fame and also artists from New York, India and Jamaica. He has already performed in New York, Toronto, Montreal, Jamaica, Miami, Orlando etc.
Helped in the arrangement of the Saaj Sameelan composition, entitled Dostana which was composed by his father, Mr. Ramnarine 'Tole' Moonilal, leader of the Dil-E-Nadann Indian Orchestra. Sang on Indian Variety and was a finalist on Mastana Bahar. Rennie has just returned from a successful tour of the USA - New York, Miami and Orlando. He as also just released a brand new cassette 'New Image'.
The music was done and some songs rearranged by Raymond, Richard and Rennie himself. The songs were selected by Rennie's father and mother.
Rennie currently plays rhythm, lead guitar and bass guitar and is also one of the lead singers with the Dil-E-Nadaan Indian Orchestra of Gasparillo. He plans to further his studies, academically and also in music and with his singing. He is very grateful to his parents for the guidance, encouragement, support, love and understandings. They are very proud and in turn Raymond, Richard and Rennie hopes to continue this tradition and would like to thank other members of the Dil-E-Nadan for all their support.
Richard Ramnarine
Meet the baby of the talented Ramnarine family - Richard. Just like his illustrious brothers Raymond and Rennie - musician - singer and oh-well the girls go berserk for him.
Richard joined the band in 1990 as a Dholak and Tabla player. He received formal training from Roby Rooplal for about one year. In 1993 he expanded his role to include all percussion instruments and the rhythm machine. Richard is a player of the nineties synchronizing the eastern and western rhythms with such ease and perfection.
Elder brother Raymond remembers heckling Richard that he should follow his brothers not only as musicians but he should take up singing and he did - but fully aware of the standards set by his brothers used to hide and rehearse, in fact he made his public debut in 1995 at the annual Valentine Spectacular singing behind his instruments still shy but very effective.
In 1998 at Queens Hall and Union Park Complex, Richard for the first time took the microphone and sang at the front of the Band.
He is an important link in the Dil-E-Nadaan Orchestra. His mission id to expand his capabilities, with the help of Raymond and Rennie with the keyboards and guitars. His idols not unexpectedly are his father who he adores and brothers Raymond and Rennie who he credits with teaching him all he knows. He proposes also to pursue courses in computer technology which he hopes to incorporate within the band.
Richard today handles the arrangements of the band for their many engagements including Tours.
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Sundar Popo was born on November 4, 1943. Sundar was the father of four children, two of whom have t...
Sundar Popo was born on November 4, 1943. Sundar was the father of four children, two of whom have taken up singing. In 1976 Sundar won the first Local Song competition in the Indian Cultural Pageant. International success came to him when he performed at the Babla and Kanchan concert in Trinidad in 1979.
Babla and Kanchan borrowed some of his hits, re-recorded them with better orchestration techniques and introduced them to India and the world.
Sundar was a pioneer and introduced Indian musical tones and Indian instrumentation into Trinidadian music. He brought chutney into calypso. Sundar made many overseas concert tours to North America, Europe, India, Fiji, Mauritius, Guyana and Suriname, and recorded many songs.
Sundar received a National Award for Excellence as top vocalist of the year in 1988. In 1993 he won the Sunshine Award for first place in Indian Soca, and in 1996 he received a "Caribbean Bacchanal" trophy.
In 1993, he was awarded the Humming Bird Medal (Silver).
He performed at the "World Beat Festival" in 1999.
His last performance was at the 2000 Chutney Soca Monarch competition at Skinner Park.
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Sundar Popo was born on November 4, 1943. Sundar was the father of four children, two of whom have t...
Sundar Popo was born on November 4, 1943. Sundar was the father of four children, two of whom have taken up singing. In 1976 Sundar won the first Local Song competition in the Indian Cultural Pageant. International success came to him when he performed at the Babla and Kanchan concert in Trinidad in 1979.
Babla and Kanchan borrowed some of his hits, re-recorded them with better orchestration techniques and introduced them to India and the world.
Sundar was a pioneer and introduced Indian musical tones and Indian instrumentation into Trinidadian music. He brought chutney into calypso. Sundar made many overseas concert tours to North America, Europe, India, Fiji, Mauritius, Guyana and Suriname, and recorded many songs.
Sundar received a National Award for Excellence as top vocalist of the year in 1988. In 1993 he won the Sunshine Award for first place in Indian Soca, and in 1996 he received a "Caribbean Bacchanal" trophy.
In 1993, he was awarded the Humming Bird Medal (Silver).
He performed at the "World Beat Festival" in 1999.
His last performance was at the 2000 Chutney Soca Monarch competition at Skinner Park.
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Neeshan D Hitman Prabhoo
- Whole Day Liming
Neeshan Prabhoo has been slowly rising over the last f...
Neeshan D Hitman Prabhoo
- Whole Day Liming
Neeshan Prabhoo has been slowly rising over the last five years. This year, the 30-year-old from Todds Roads, Central, takes aim at the crown with Whole Day Liming, a song that is also called trouble. Trudy Parboo, his publicist, said the song was written by Prabhoo and speaks about a man liming all day and decides to run away from stress after a family argument. Parboo said DHitman has been to the finals in 2008 with Drunk and Married, a song he recorded with Dile-e-Nadan.
DHitman also appeared on the big stage in 2005 and 2007. Doh Hold Me Back was his first chutney song that was recorded in 1997. Prabhoo took a break from singing and recorded his most sought-after tune, More Rum For Me, better known as Listen Mr Shanka in 2004.
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Angels Caribbean Band, led by Amar "Vinod" Bisram, is New York's most versatile Caribbean live band consisting of a team of dynamic and talented musicians and singers from various Caribbean islands. Angels Caribbean Band made their professional debut in June 1994.
The original concept behind the formation of this group is to promote and preserve Caribbean arts, culture and heritage. Angels Caribbean Band has enjoyed remarkable success and continues to be trendsetters since they exploded upon America's Indo-Caribbean music scene.
With the ability to play different types of music, the group had the privilege to accompany most of the top named Caribbean artistes including the late 'Godfather of Chutney Music' Sundar Popo, Terry Gajraj, Rooplal G, Chris Garcia, Ricky Jai, Crazy, Baron, Calypso Rose, Kris Ramkhelawan, Soca Raja, Ashnie, Sunny Man, Heeralall Rampertab, Apache Waria, Arawak Indian, Sammy Baksh, Yankarran Brothers, Jameer Hosein, Rasika Dindiyal, Devindra Pooran, Daveanand Gatoo, Videsh Sookoo, Adesh, Rick Ramdehal, and many more. Angels Caribbean Band was also fortunate to share the same stage with Dave Martins and The Tradewinds, Arrow, Traffic, Krossfyah, The Mighty Sparrow.
Angels Caribbean Band had many memorable performances throughout America, which includes the world famous Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, The Nassau Coliseum, Six Flags Theme Park, Disney Amphitheater, Albany and Baltimore Carnival, Queens Day Festival, Jamaica Arts & Music Festival, New York's Annual Phagwah Parade in NY and many more.
The group has been honored many times for their contribution towards numerous charitable events.
Top ranked professional musicians are Vinod on keyboards/arranger, Ramdeo on bass guitar, Charles on rhythm/lead guitar, Ronald on dholak/tabla/congas, Freddy on second keyboard, Mitch and Anselm on Trumpet, Ramesh and Jive on Saxophone and Vikash on drums. Lead female vocalists are New York's Sensations, Geeta Bisram and Tricia Allyen. Lead male vocalist is Dexter M.
The sound (P.A) is provided by Angels Sound Reinforcement. Sound Engineer is Vijay and technicians are Shaun, Drex and Richard.
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The latest music from Trinidad .
Dil-E-Nadan Indian Orchestra is from Trinidad
The latest music from Trinidad .
Dil-E-Nadan Indian Orchestra is from Trinidad
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Rikki Jai is ah Trinidadian chutney-soca artiste born Samraj Jaimungal in Friendship Village, San Fe...
Rikki Jai is ah Trinidadian chutney-soca artiste born Samraj Jaimungal in Friendship Village, San Fernando.
The prince of soca chutney, his highness Rikki Jai. Samraj "Rikki" Jai is the most successful crossover entertainer in the world. He has won the Carib Soca Chutney Monarch competition too many times to count, and has been the first Indian performer to make his mark on the soca charts with many different hit tunes. Most recently, he's known for his super hit throughout the soca and chutney universe for his song, Mor Tor. Mor Tor was almost a road march contender for the 2004 carnival season and was so popular that superstar Machel Montano also teamed up with his highness to remix the song.
Rikki Jai is also known for his past super chart topers like Scorpion, Dulahin, de River Lime and the song he broke into the scene with, Sumintra. Rikki Jai is unlike all other artists as he was the first to brake down the barrier, and allow space for 'Indian" soca entertainers to be recognized on the same stage as all the other top artists, although to this day no one has been able to reach the level at which Rikki has achieved success. None the less, he's still and always will be the true Prince of Soca Chutney music.
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The accomplished singer and music director Ravi Bissembhar is hip and happening for Carnival 2K9 as ...
The accomplished singer and music director Ravi Bissembhar is hip and happening for Carnival 2K9 as he is very much in demand with his song Dularie. The handsome young singer has taken the second place at the recent Chutney Soca Monarch competition, winning $100,000. Commenting on his win he said, This is really the peak of my career as a performer. There are no words to describe the feeling of performing in competition before such a mammoth crowd.As one of the lead singers with the band Karma, Ravi has been travelling extensively throughout 2008 and returned for the festive season in December of last year. Having grown up amidst orchestra music, where his father Jeewanlal Bissembhar was one of the leaders of the Indian Art Orchestra, he has had first- hand knowledge of the music. It is in my blood and I could not escape it even if I tried, he said.
According to Ravi, he knew it was a very demanding job and he thought about getting into another profession that would take him to different countries but it was a calling and he found himself learning the keyboards at the tender age of 12. He was later asked to do back-up singing for the main singers and he obliged as he was ready to take the music to a higher level in the country. Soon he was singing his own songs. I had the voice, the experience and the musical skill so I was naturally into the music industry. says Ravi. He remains perhaps the youngest musical producer, director, arranger, singer and one of the most sought after musical programmer in the country. We in Trinidad are a unique people. We get to appreciate the music from India and from the west. We can mix and remix and people will love us for it, he said.
He is also inspired by his brother Anil, sisters Nalini and Nisha. Ravi has toured the Caribbean, USA, Canada, Guyana, Europe and Suriname. He is known for doing calypso, R&B and pop songs as part of his wide-ranging repertoire. There are love songs coming out of Hollywood that people really love and there are love songs coming out of Bollywood that fans go crazy for. I am just lucky that I can do these songs for the people, he said.
The artiste notes that while he has to spend more than 12 hours a day preparing for the stage, it is rewarding to see how people respond to him on stage. He made waves with his big hit songs, Gul Yuh Start Meh, Rum is Meh Lover and Teer Cheer. Other hit songs include, Karma Slam1&2, Yeh Kahan, Mom and Dad, Badi Door, Seene Meh Dil, Ek Teira Saath, Karma Rompe, Channa Vey and his version of Mangalam Ganesham.
Some of his greatest achievements include performing alongside Nitin Mukesh in 1996 and Shah Rukh Khan in 1999. He said one of his achievements was in joining the 90.5 FM family in 2002 which gave him the opportunity to play music for Kumar Sanu at the 90.5 FM cook out competition in 2004. In December of 2005 he was chosen to open the Bollywood Music Awards. Since its inauguration Karma has produce six albums, Evolution, ABC (Another Bad Creation), Party Mix, Secret 48, Karma Mangalam, Destiny and Karmasutra.
Ravi spoke about his father, Jeewanlal, who died last year, noting that he started out as a vocalist but went on to master the art of bass guitar as well. Over the years he has become known to the Indian music industry as the only singer this side of the Caribbean to have the closest sounding voice to Jagjit Singh.
My father was a humble individual who had a lot of courage and strength as he weathered all the storms in his silent way. He was never one to argue with anyone and I think I have learnt to have patience and be strong when things go wrong in life, he said, adding that there were many instances when things did go wrong.
Ravi is also very proud of his sister Nisha who has been the main act in the band Karma as they continue to deliver their best music and songs for the local fans and those in foreign countries. In 1999, she released The Scorpion, a song that was voted one of the most popular songs of all time. Some time after, together with brothers Anil and Ravi, the band Karma was formed.
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Neeshan Prabhoo aka The Hitman
Neeshan Prabhoo began singing film songs at around 16yrs as an hob...
Neeshan Prabhoo aka The Hitman
Neeshan Prabhoo began singing film songs at around 16yrs as an hobby, until he tried his talent in chutney, producing his first and very successful hit Dont Hold Me Back this mega hit came out in 1997 which lead to the artiste touring the Caribbean and the rest of the world where chutney soca is enjoyed, he did a few more songs after, which enjoyed a fair response, he then took a break from singing to concentrate on his personal life.
In October 2003 he did an album entitled Another Hit by the Hitman this album was released around May of 2004, on this album one can find the biggest Chutney Soca tune of 2005 carnival, More Rum for Me better know as listen Mr. Chankar. The song can also be found on a Cd entiltled Trini Bashment.
Starting as early as July since the album was released Neeshan started touring once again his first overseas trip being to Guyana. To date this song is currently being played on all the major radio stations both Indo and Afro along with the video which is currently being played on synergy TV both under the Soca listing and Chutney. More Rum for Me is not only dominating all the house parties, clubs and shows here in Trinidad but is a major hit in the entire Caribbean and The world.
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Andy Singh
It is quite amazing the kind of talent that continue to emerge in Trinidad when you consider the absence of any institutions for grooming such talent. It is also quite amazing, the talent that comes from many families in our blessed land. I am sure you have heard of Ras Nancoo Singh, certainly one of our living legends in songs. Ras is also responsible of providing to Trinidad and the world two brilliant sons Ian and Andy. Ian now resides in Toronto, Andy lives in Trinidad and every weekend is in every nook and cranny entertaining his hordes of fans with his melodious voice.
Andy is a proud son of the little village known as Rambert situated just on the outskirts of San Fernando. He was born on the 28th of July 1969.He career began quite surprisingly only in 1991. In 1992 he was already a force to be reckoned with reaching the finals of the first ever Film and Chutney Finals. In 1994 he entered Mastana Bahar and reached the finals where he placed fourth. In his relatively short career he has performed with most of the top bands, Gayatones, D Rampersad and presently is the lead singer with the SSL MELOBUGZ Orchestra.
He has represented Trinidad in several inter-national venues, Miami, New York, Washington, New Jersey, Toronto, Montreal and the Caribbean.
He is currently employed as a salesman with a leading Industrial firm Southern Supplies Limited as a marketing representative.
He is eternally grateful for the support and guidance that he received from his dad Ras, mom and his charming wife Sherry who supports him in all his endeavors. Andys inspiration comes from his three daughters- Ahalia, Selena and Selest. He adores his fans both here and abroad and cherishes their admiration. His mission is to bring the people together through song and is hoping that peace and unity prevails.
Andy is today one of the most sought after singers especially with the success of the album Klymax by his band Melobugz in which he renders most of the songs.
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Ravi Bissambhar
He is one of the most popular male artistes in Trinidad because of his versality and charming personality. He is the youngest musical arranger and one of the most sought after programmer.
Ravi started singing at the age of 13 and ever since this young artiste has just kept on aspiring. Currently Ravi is continuing his studies in Computer Literacy and Business Software after graduating at the North Eastern College in Sangre Grande.
He enjoys being versatile and especially following the footsteps of Kumar Sanu. Dramatically he is a major fan of Eminem. Ravi has toured most of the U.S. and he was the recipient of numerous awards in the children of Mastana and Mastana Bahar.
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