Mighty Sparrow - Jean & Dinah

[kitabwalli]

Thanks so much. The kaiso is easy to find but this commentary is great.

[juliantt11]

Woman will always sell their pussy,no man have any keys for a woman pussy.

[heads48]

@juliantt11 the key to everything is your mind, those women did what they had to do to survive, in tnt women are far ahead of north american women, who argue for the right to go braless and do what a man does, in tnt they do it, and they are not asking anyone for permission, wether its a job or anything else

[solo2000ish]

wht yr did he release this song?

[ebony1810]

I never knew the person Jean but I knew her son Steve who had moved from Laventille to live in Holland. A local play was done about the life of Jean & Dinah and the roles were played by Penelope and Rhoma Spencer. When Jean passed away Steve did not learn of this until months after.

[scoobaye]

fuk....I hear yuh badjohn....is a sad state...and we artiste dem so talented....i was in berlin 2010 and they had carnival dey....kmc performed and do rel damage...

[scoobaye]

fuk....I hear yuh badjohn....i like hearing bout the history ah we music man,....i doh understand we trinis

[PAPAROBBIE]

It is my understanding that Lord Blakie deserves some credit for this song.

[MPedroful]

The Mighty Sparrow was doing what Frank Zappa did before Frank born

[kiga1995]

Jean and Dinah is not simply a song about two prostitutes, it is one of the greatest social narratives in any genre of music.

[dcarasco]

@kiga1995--so true

[AlexWehDeya]

THATS SWAGGGAAA RIGHT THERE . hess the boss

[tumpyp]

@2:19 i am doing my thing, the 80's was a very good decade..{tumpy}

[nellie2581]

Calypso!

[scoobaye]

i dont know why the hell tnt dont dedicate some kinda television program to showcase soca for longtime with history and facts about the artiste....ppl in tnt know more bout foreign artiste than we own...SAD ah tell yuh....

[Badjohn007]

@scoobaye Too busy playing Rasta and Jamaican.

[scoobaye]

@Badjohn007 yuh don know and it really sad when yuh think bout it...Ah now listening some tunes from the 80`s and dem was styles....plus yuh have them older tunes from the 60`s and 70`s

[xenakaii]

boy dis one my faves...ven tho i ain understnd wha he meant as a child hahaaaaaaaaaaa!!

[natsannho]

His voice and character is truly distinctive and unforgettable.

[TriniIntel]

All of you folks need to look up Bomber's United Stated of the West Indies. Or listen to Rudder's Rally 'round the West Indies.

As if it's not bad enough that we have to deal with folks outside the islands bad talking us. No no. We feel to compound the problem by bad talking each other.

Just compromise. No Grenada, no Sparrow because he wouldn't have been born. No Trinidad, no Sparrow because he wouldn't have had the Trini influences. Simple as that.

Gosh.

[TriniIntel]

In regards to my comment, just in case anyone feels to get smart with me, I mean that if there was no Trinidad, then the Sparrow everyone knows and loves would not have come to be. It is entirely possible that he could have gone somewhere else as a youth and become great at another style of music.

[chikineeter]

hey i'm african i like think he is good man!!

[noirrosa]

trinidad and tobago is the land of opportunity for a lot of people. These outsiders come to trinidad and always bad mouth trinidad. they should go back to grenada or guyana

[ageneral121]

What the hell is wrong with all of you. if sparrow wasnt famous or rather yet if he was a bum would any of yoll claim him. so fucking foolish!!!!

[kesh420]

The Mighty Sparrow is amazing. Don't knock this man until you can make a gyal batty swing like this legend. Go Sparrow!

[XMUTAZIONX]

Greetings from Mèxico, i love this kind of music ^-^

[trinisocajunkie]

1 of de greatest calypsos off all time boy

[vknights26]

Sparrow is a caribbean man and the Trinidadians that speak such nonsense do not represent the core of your island. We are one people that came from one nation (Africa) and dispersed on different islands so insulting Grenada is really like insulting yourself. You all are sounding quite ignorant....so what if he was born in Grenada, whats important is that he represents a bigger picture and that is that we as a black nation is contin. to rise above the chains and traversties of enslavement

[njreyes]

we are not people that come from one nation... learn your region properly... the caribbean is not an african nation & is not made up only of people with ancestors from africa...

trinidad is the home of kiso/soca but it is a caribbean style & a caribbean flavor... we are not africans or indian or whatever else... we are Trinbagonians (Trinidad & Tobago people) multi cultural mixed people

[h0ll0wshad0w]

you are so dumb....kiso/calypso n soca is da beat of the entre W.I. and all man derived from africa you clown...Sparrow was GReenz born n bred then trini raised and tuned him...if you knew anything at all trini n grenada are adjacent thats why the mix up is so common..but hey njeyes MR.TNT if you feel you bad so goto to trini wit yuh gold chain on n bracelte and lemme see you make it out da airport alive....GReenz Stand UP TRini HOld WE Hand...One People One Nation

[njreyes]

aye bottom sniffer i am 100% born n' raised trinbagonian... WTF u tryin to tell me to go to trini & see if i make it. u a @ss or wah... doh insult ppl when u eh know who d fcuk they r... y u doh come trini & see if u make it alive wit ur attitude...

"all man derived from africa" ...WTF!!! go bak primary school & get an education yuh dumb ass... i am Carib which is Amerindian/native of trinidad & the caribbean not africa...

if u read my post properly i said kiso/calypso is a caribbean flavor...

[kofiata]

@h0ll0wshad0w Hello, am a Ghanaian (West Africa) this music or genre was and is hot in my country, i dont know too much about Grenada and Trinidad, but from your discussions i get the feeling this two countries have some kind of `neighbour` fuss, no offense.....or have i got the wrong impression?.

[kevynsken]

@kofiata I visited Ghana last year and it was a LIFE long ( 20 years...lol) dream of mine. I'm from Barbados, another Island which has a great calypso influence.

I taught at a primary school in Ejisu about Traditional Ghanaian art and dance, "adowa" etc. I played calypso and the kids were WINING! I mean hips moving the same as in the caribbean. It is true we are more the same than different.

[kofiata]

@kevynsken ....So u are from Barbados---Eddy Grant`s home...I love Eddie`s style so much, he has one song called `` dance party`` , I cant get it on youtube, am living in Finland and i cant get here either....... I see u were in the ashanti region, great, adowa eeh? am not from ashanti but i love the adowa rythm and the dance as well, it has got it`s own distinct style......are u still in Ghana?

[kevynsken]

Hi, how are you? 

[kofiata]

@kevynsken nice to hear from you, Hmmmm Finland...well, cant complain, anyway am doing fine, my cousin lives in the states too, youve been to Barbados of late?, i would like to visit all these places one day, you know.... the home of socca, steel drums etc. there is one socca song i loved so much but never get the words clearly...its like `´major yankee........`´ am not sure of the title so i cant get it on youtube. lets stay in touch...peace.....

[grenadian11]

@kofiata yea Trinidians was considered big and developed and Grenada a small island; many grenadian migrated to Trinidad and I understand many were treated the way black were treated in the U.S. back in the day. But today Grenadian and Trinidians have migrated to the U.S. and now were all considered from "small islands" lol!

[kofiata]

@grenadian11 Thanx for the information, well,,,the whole earth is one big village for all humanity, I hope we can understand----- burry our differences and live in harmony together with love.....peace and greetings.

[bdsamlal]

@kofiata Ghana is eerily similar to some of the Caribbean islands and Trinidad too, perhaps a little while back-Even the faces look familiar-Hopefully oil might bring us together some day.

[empressofflatbush]

so whats wrong wth people happng for there home kin was born n london mom from trinidad and dad from jamaica i lived in both places and represent both places

[toeteehead]

what music comes from Grenada? I have no idea? Grenada cannot lay claims to a particular music. We along with Jamaica and other countries can claim that we have created a particular genre of music. We have even invented a musical instrument...but then again I might hear some obscence claim that it was invented in Grenada. Calypso comes from Trinidad and Tobago...if he lived in Jamaica he would have been singing reggae, in Martinique - zouk...if he was in Grenada he would have been a mute.

[baller2705712]

sparrow will be in trinidadian i bet he consider himself a trinidadian. No one is denying that he was born in grenada but his parent moved to trinidad when he was one year old or something. He grew up as a trinidadian and is a costume to all trinidadian music, food, culture tradition etc. As you said if he grew up in jamaica most likely he will be a reggae singer... so sparrow is a trinidadian end of story...

[h0ll0wshad0w]

lissen so if you were born in australia and moved to america and became tuned to american customs you wood call yourself an america?clownery i swear there are some real dahl head amchar fools in dis place lol

[swankyL]

lol!!!!!

[toeteehead]

All you Grenadians who are trying to claim Sparrow...that shit is funny because all his formative years were spent in Trinidad as a result this informed his concern and shaped his understanding of music. He first joined the choir in Newtown boys primary school (in Trinidad) and from there his career took off. Ask yourself can you not produce your own great? you must claim the greatest exponent of calypso in the world. All Grenada is and will ever be is a spice island...live with it

[h0ll0wshad0w]

your name explains you well...had sparrow not been born who would you claim as the besy calypsonian?.............. mayb kitchener but wait Grenada produced a great son deal with it....

[Shadzee]

Firstly, yes Sparrow is a Grenadian but let's get some facts down, most of his best compositions were written by Winsford Devine, yes a TRINIDADIAN so at the end it comes back to us..

[undertakerismark]

i grew up listening to my dad talking about sparrow's greatness and listening to the records i learnt to love the mighty sparrow

[garwilly26]

yeah jean and dinad are hoes who selling they pussy to American tourist which they are called Yahkees

[lafarzia]

correct is riiiight !!!! dats exactly true

[ModelMembership]

@garwilly26 ** You had to use the word Pussy, Really?? We would have gotton the point. By the way it's Dinah and Yankees.

[musiqchild007]

@garwilly26 YANKEES...

[eduardojoelsamuel]

@garwilly26 Wrong!!! They selling their pussy to American service men (sailors, army) thats why he say they close down di base for good. ;)

[Ardwynna]

@garwilly26 Yankees, not Yahkees, and not tourists but American GIs stationed on the islands during WWII.

[marledebakkerunicorn]

@garwilly26 It's not about "hoes" this song is about the social situation in Trinidad during the time the Yankees were based in Port of Spain. There is so much more to this song, it's a pity you don't get it. Whole families were parted because of this, the old values were degrated, this is true kaiso, the beat is a disguise of what the song is about.

[didisance]

@garwilly26 The "yankees" he referred to were NOT tourists. They were American soldiers stationed at the Chaguaramas Military Base from 1940 until 1963 when the peninsula it was returned to the Trinidad and Tobago Government. That was the "base" Sparrow referred to in the clip.

[nytrini2005]

@garwilly26 you have trouble expressing yourself without sounding like you live in a drain?

[tunafish135]

tell dem hal da backside. spice nice

[vynniev]

Is this the real story coming from Sparrow...I heard from someone who was there when he performed the song for the first time that the song belonged to someone else who happened to be in jail with sparrow at the time who was jailed for badman ting at the time...and the song was being sung inside and because sparrow was the first one to get out of the jail, he sang the song...jean and dinah were real prostitutes....is this correct?

[mixkain]

That is the story that I was always told. but, i would assume that the version he gave here was more interview friendly, than talking about real prostitutes and being in jail

[CumacoProducciones]

Hey! Great video! Just wondering if there is a way to get Mighty Sparrow's videos?

[adonialova]

i luv dis old tune bringin back memories

[MuslinTree]

Great clip, great atmosphere. I was lucky to catch a Sparrow (and Duke) performance while on holiday in Tobago.

[lafarzia]

LMAO Yes bredda... tune real nice!!!!

Makes me miss home.....

[sasonly1]

I love it...his accent, everything, he sounds like my dad...I miss HOME!!! :(

[Carribbean143]

what accent?

[sasonly1]

what do you mean what accent? You can't hear?

[Carribbean143]

erm no i cant.. he speaks like a normal person does!!! not like frikkin americans! lol

[sasonly1]

you're a retard, so I'm not even going to dignify you with a response. Have a blessed one... :)

[Carribbean143]

erm wasn't that a response?

lolz and i am having a blessed day!

hope u do the same!

[lafarzia]

yes its true.... I never notice our accent until I moved to Canada and really heard our Trini accent. well if you like this one, u might like kitchener and look up "curry tabanca".. very very old tune, but it was huge back then!!!

[lady1scorp]

he is a born grenada you hear the grenadian accent a little but he live in trinidad most of the time it is because of trinidad he is known for his music

[tammy403]

because of Trinidad? wa di backside does do some of allyuh. Di man have T A L E N T. bout thanx to trinidad. rel chupidy does be walkin round on is youtube yuh hear.

[lady1scorp]

yes it is because of trinidad if you know the history of where he started you wouldnt say that and i never once said the man didnt have talent but anyhow I will be that stupidy that walk around on youtube if you know the history you would eat them words

[tunafish135]

your the one that wants to check history and work out after africa where most of you trini peps come out well the real black ones like trevor mac d. grenada has got your rootstha dont include dem indian and dem creole one dem.

[tunafish135]

tell dem they moder bam bam, real chupidy!

[upnorthsoundbwoy]

he born deh but he go a trinidad from he a small pickney how he go get grenada accent?

[tunafish135]

utter rubbish the music came from him not from trindad. just face facts he is a grenadian

[trinisocajunkie]

do u have lying excuses ?

[Gramazone]

Hear friggin tuneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[jodydindial]

wicked tune, when i was little me and meh father used to dance this.

[0FREDDY1]

It´s a real pity they don´t make calypsos like this anymore; and it´s just because the yankees got back; and this time with big corporations which have taken over calypsonians and the trinidadian carnival, with stupid songs and stupid bands with no meaning in their lyrics.

[footcandy]

Things brings back memories and makes me homesick! Thanks!

[sheeshmusic]

The West Indies have given Reggae and calypso to Homo Sapiens...Enjoy