Calypso music

You can never lost, boy.

You see me a swoker? When I come to Calypso Music, see the boy surf right on the SME at me, man.

I ain't a winner.

I'm looking on to the party.

I was like, it is such a fun song.

Like, Calypso music in itself is just vibrant and bright.

But the storytelling she has and the way she kind of uses it as a way of activism and standing for a community is amazing.

So you should take the time.

And though her father, a spiritual Baptist minister, didn't approve of the music, she knew it was something she had to do that would allow her to tell her story, her talents, and the stories of those who were marginalized.

So she told Fader.com this.

When I first started, my father, who was a spiritual Baptist minister, told me that calypso music belonged to the devil.

She laughs.

This episode today reflects the life of The Mighty Sparrow.

From Calypso to legend.

Remembering Slinger Francisco, The Mighty Sparrow.

This is Auntie Tonya with ASA Reality, your humble and dedicated podcast host.

And Mighty...

He became, yes indeed, Gene and Dinah the breakthrough.

In 1956, Sparrow exploded on the Calypso scene with Gene and Dinah.

That's a smarty one.

So if you know anybody that loves them, some throwbacks.

When it comes to Sokla, when it comes to Calypso, the Zouk, the Polar.

be on first thing in the morning first thing in the morning the coffee run with miss sk alongside my brother marky t step by desk give me you guys the afternoon groove show each and every venice from six to eight right here on irin 98 That's D-A-T-B-I-E-D-E-Z

Well, let's just talk for a second about Ernest Ranglin and the series of records that you made that leaned into that part of your musical life.

The kid in Jamaica, going to the clubs where some of the local guys are playing and all these, I'm sitting there going, wow, you know, rock Jamaica music, Calypso.

Had the accordion, I go sit in with the Calypso bands, you know.

Them guys singing the old Calypso songs, you know.

And I'm picking up the whole repertoire of old folk songs, Jamaican folk songs, you know.

matilda matilda she take me money and run venezuela i'm learning the whole the steel drum thing and i go to a club one time and there's this unusual guy playing the guitar but he's playing the guitar like it's an orchestra he's making sounds like a bird in the tree or a truck backfiring or making fun playing pop goes the weasel Ernest Ranglin.

Notes coming out.

Where are the notes coming from? Harmony and Giant Steps.

You talk about being in your rooms, being on your road, seeing the thing, right? Yeah.

So the idea I had was, I feel like if we need to do something like that for Calypso, where it's not just the top songs, which we could do, we could do a top 100.

I know people have attempted it before, but I'm particularly interested in lines in songs.

Like I had Cro-Cro, it's a little chaotic right now, Cro-Cro episode now come out, but Cro-Cro have a line in his song where he say, I cock my ears and I turn my macko knob on.

Well, you know how they progress.

Yes.

So I have a suspicion that if anybody come up with a top 10 list of Calypso's they ever heard, you have a few well inside.

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