
Ras Shorty I (October 6, 1941-July 12, 2000) was a soca musician, known as the Father of Soca and The Love Man. He was born Garfield Blackman in Barrackpore, Trinidad and Tobago, and rose to fame as Lord Shorty with his 1963 hit "Clock and Dagger". He started out writing songs and performing in the calypso genre. In the 1970s, he began experimenting with calypso by blending it with the local chutney—the music of Trinidad's East Indian population—using instruments such as the sitar and tabla. The style was dubbed "soca".
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Higher World of Music
Shanti Om
Indrani
Vibration Groove
Sweet Music
Who God Bless.
Endless Vibrations
Soca Fever
Money Eh No Problem
Gone Ah Them Days
Keep in Touch
Push On
Kim
Sokah the Soul of Calypso
E Pete
Wo Yo Youi
Soul Calypso Music
Zena
Oh Trinidad
Cory Iron
Just Play
Quest
Kalo Gee Bull Bull
Drum Spirits
When Will It Come
The Cost of Friendship
Calypso
It's Alive
This Song
Ni Tu Whe Whe
We Ting
True King of Carnival
Calypso Is Ours
Final Page
You Must Come
Love the High Foluting Way
Loving You
Give Me
To Kill a Cat
Sex and the Fairer Sex
Virus of Happiness
The Art of Making Love (Pt 1)
Saltfish Mentality
Not Because
Love in the Caribbean
Claudia
Bajan Girl
Gone Gone Gone
Second Fiddle
Come Go With Me
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