Parang music is a genre of folk music that is performed around Christmastime. Traditionally sung in Spanish, parang was introduced to Trinidad and Tobago from Venezuela, but the music has deeper roots ...
Eighty-two-year-old calypso veteran Crazy (Edwin Ayoung) has teamed with 19-year-old Venezuelan singer Jan Luis for a new version of his 1979 parang soca classic, “Muchacha”, calling it a small but ...
Think of the music of Trinidad and Tobago and the sharp report of steel pan drummers parading at Carnival is most likely to come to mind. Those rhythms and melodies are associated with the ...