Roy & Gloria in Piparo

Ras Shorty I's 10 year remembrance celebration with the Blackman family and friends. We cooked, limed, sang and danced in the beautiful forested area of Piparo where Shorty made his home with his wife and children!

"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,[1] and rose to fame as Lord Shorty with his 1963 hit "Clock and Dagger" and took on the name Ras Shorty after becoming a Rastafarian. 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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