When Drupatee Ramgoonai stepped into the national spotlight in the mid-1980s, there was no language for what she was doing.
Trinidad and Tobago, a twin island nation in the Caribbean, is a small place with a big musical presence. It's the home of calypso and the steel pan and chutney but not the edible kind. Reporter Ike ...
If blues was the magic carried by African slaves, chutney music was the sorcery of Indo-Caribbeans. It is Bhojpuri folk electrified with Caribbean swagger – dholak beats fused with soca basslines and ...
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has honoured her promise of a national award for deceased Indo-music singer Anil Bheem. Bheem was posthumously awarded the Humming Bird Gold medal, in the sphere ...