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In Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname, chutney soca music is a crossover style of music incorporating soca and calypso elements and English, Hindustani, and Hinglish lyrics, chutney music, with Western instruments such as the guitar, piano, drum set, and Indian instruments such as the dholak, harmonium, tabla, and dhantal.
The term chutney soca was first coined by Drupatee Ramgoonai of Trinidad and Tobago in 1987 in her first album entitled Chutney Soca, with a mix of Trinidadian English and Trinidadian Hindustani versions of the songs. The current style of spelling of the term was not established then and she spelt it as "Chatnee Soca". The following year her hit "Roll up de Tassa" was instrumental in creating a commercial market for this type of music internationally. Drupatee has spoken about the blending of Afro and Indo melodies and rhythms in songs such as "Chatnee Soca" and "Hotter than ah Chulha". Chutney is a melody and soca is a beat. Drupatee used an ancient Indian melody called a lawnee with the soca beat in her rendition of "O Tassawalley" and has released a legacy of chutney soca music.
Suriname, chutneysoca music is a crossover style of music incorporating soca and calypso elements and English, Hindustani, and Hinglish lyrics, chutney music...
popularity throughout that decade. Soca's development as a musical genre included its fusion with calypso, chutney, reggae, zouk, Latin, cadence and traditional...
syncretic subgenres including ragga chutney, chutney-bhangra, chutney hip-hop, soca-bhangra, and chutneysoca. Chutneysoca is the most notable of these, as...
Om". Soca and its derivatives (Chutneysoca, Groovy soca, Power soca) have largely displaced mainstream calypso as the music of Carnivaless. Chutney was...
music of Trinidad and Tobago is best known for its calypso music, soca music, chutney music, and steelpan. Calypso's internationally noted performances...
Lopinot, and Arima. A new form of parang, soca parang, has emerged. Soca parang is a combination of soca and parang. In Trinidad, traditional parang...
Terry Vivekanand Gajraj is a Guyanese chutney and chutney-soca artist. Born in the village of Fyrish, near the Corentyne River, in Guyana, he is the eldest...
mixed calypso with the cadence of Haiti; and soca music, a style of kaiso/calypso, with influences from chutney, soul, funk, Latin and cadence-lypso. It is...
steelpan, the limbo, and music styles such as calypso, soca, rapso, parang, chutney, and chutneysoca. Historian E. L. Joseph claimed that Trinidad's Indigenous...
the Latin script is used due to familiarity and easiness. Chutney music, chutneysoca, chutney parang, baithak gana, folk music, classical music, some Hindu...
This is a list of chutney musicians: Ravi Bissambhar Ramdew Chaitoe Rikki Jai (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, joint-2003 ChutneySoca Monarch) Sundar Popo Neeshan...
and songwriter who is the lead vocalist and arranger of the crossover chutneysoca band Dil-E-Nadan. Ramnarine was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago...
few artistes from the Caribbean that can perform and sing ChutneySoca, Bollywood playback, Soca, Reggae, Bhajans and Classical Indian singing. Ravi B is...
Tobagonian chutney and chutneysoca musician. She was responsible for coining the term "chutneysoca" in 1987 with her first album, entitled ChutneySoca, which...
most popular music. Kaiso evolved into calypso and that, too, evolved into soca music. The very fact that the word kaiso was common and accepted enough to...
Jaimungal; pronounced [səmərɑːɟə ɟəjəməⁿɡələ]) is an Indo-Trinidadian chutney and chutney-soca musician. Jai's 1988 debut single Sumintra told the tale of an...
diaspora, including African American music and many Caribbean genres like soca, calypso and Zouk; and Latin American music genres like the samba, Cuban...
music label for Caribbean music and is the largest label worldwide for soca and chutney music. Based in Tampa, Florida (previously in New York City), Fox Fuse...
Chutney parang or parang chutney is a style of music that is a cross between Venezuela, Colombia, and Trinidad and Tobago's traditional Christmas music...
festivities. It is often used in Filmi Sangeet (Indian film music), in chutney music, chutney-soca, baitak gana, taan singing, bhajans, and the local Indian folk...
violence against his wife. In her analysis of gender negotiations in chutneysoca, Aisha Mohammed fits Baboolal into both the tradition of Indian folk...
the soca/chutney industry with famous songs such as: "Throw Wine" (2012), "Lokani" (2013) and "Another One" (2013) He made it to the ChutneySoca Finals...
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