Playlist (Mar/Apr 2019) | Music reviews By Nigel Campbell | Issue 156 (March/April 2019) This month’s listening picks, with reviews of the latest by Super Blue; Triple Kay International; and more from various artists
Destra Garcia: queen of queens | Closeup By Nigel Campbell | Issue 156 (March/April 2019) T&T’s self-proclaimed Queen of Bacchanal is a Carnival mainstay. But, two decades into her career, Destra Garcia remains underestimated by local fans and critics, argues Nigel A. Campbell
Stories of steel | Panorama By Mark Lyndersay and Sharmain Baboolal | Issue 156 (March/April 2019) Carnival is the season of steelpan. But behind the Panorama stage, the future of T&T’s national musical instrument will be shaped by administrators, craftspeople, arrangers, and educators — like these men and women profiled by writer Sharmain Baboolal and photographer Mark Lyndersay
Playlist (Jan/Feb 2019) | Music reviews By Nigel Campbell | Issue 155 (January/February 2019) This month’s listening picks, with reviews of the latest by Keba; 5OH8 + KVL; and Tebby
Dennery Style | Backstory By Laura Dowrich-Phillips | Issue 155 (January/February 2019) If you have ears to listen at Carnival time, you’ve heard Dennery Segment, even if you don’t know the name. Laura Dowrich explores the roots of the soca genre originating in a small village in St Lucia
The Mighty Shadow | Icon By Attillah Springer | Issue 155 (January/February 2019) Attillah Springer writes a letter to T&T’s late calypsonian-philosopher
Playlist (Nov/Dec 2018) | Music reviews By Nigel Campbell | Issue 154 (November/December 2018) This month’s listening picks, with reviews of the latest by Millbeatz; Jonathan Scales Fourchestra; Anthony Joseph; and Lyfe Az Rose
The inimitable Grace Jones | Backstory By Nazma Muller | Issue 154 (November/December 2018) She’s an instantly recognisable icon of music and fashion, with a forty-year career in the limelight. And the inimitable Grace Jones is Jamaican to the core, says Nazma Muller
Jeanine De Bique: “It doesn’t matter where you come from” | Own words By Caroline Taylor | Issue 154 (November/December 2018) Jeanine De Bique, Trinidad-born classical singer, on the influence of her upbringing, and why Trinis “could do anything” — as told to Caroline Taylor
Playlist (Sept/Oct 2018) | Music reviews By Nigel Campbell | Issue 153 (September/October 2018) This month’s listening picks, with reviews of the latest by Freetown; Larnell Lewis; Kabaka Pyramid; and Jah9
Michele Henderson: “I woke up with an entire song in my head” By Paul Crask | Issue 153 (September/October 2018) Singer-songwriter Michele Henderson, performing at October’s World Creole Music Festival, on her musical childhood and her transition to the international stage — as told to Paul Crask, at her home in Grand Bay, Dominica
Playlist (Jul/Aug 2018) | Music reviews By Nigel Campbell | Issue 152 (July/August 2018) This month’s listening picks, with reviews of the latest by jointpop; Kellie Cadogan; John Arnold; and Jeremy Ledbetter Trio
Nailah Blackman: welcome to the evolution | Snapshot By Laura Dowrich-Phillips | Issue 152 (July/August 2018) With music in her bloodline, T&T’s Nailah Blackman was almost destined for a career behind the microphone. She was the breakthrough performer of Carnival 2017, still a teenager — but, as she tells Laura Dowrich-Phillips, her ambitions go beyond soca, to another stage of musical evolution
Playlist (May/Jun 2018) | Music reviews By Nigel Campbell | Issue 151 (May/June 2018) This month’s listening picks, with reviews of the latest by Jeanine S. Ruiz; Michael Brun; King Kembe; and Sting and Shaggy
Playlist (Mar/Apr 2018) | Music reviews By Nigel Campbell | Issue 150 (March/April 2018) This month’s listening picks, with reviews of the latest by David Bertrand; Jimmy October; Major Lazer; and Beres Hammond
Skip Marley: “I’m not trying to fill his shoes” | Own words By Nazma Muller | Issue 150 (March/April 2018) Twenty-one-year-old Skip Marley, grandson of the legendary Bob, on growing up in Jamaica’s musical royal family, his hopes for stardom, and the message of his songs, for his own and every other generation — as told to Nazma Muller
São Luís do Maranhão — Brazil’s reggae city | Travellers’ tales By David Katz | Issue 150 (March/April 2018) Founded in 1612 on Brazil’s Atlantic coast, the city of São Luís do Maranhão is a treasurehouse of historic achitecture, encrusted with ornate blue tiles, and has a long tradition of avant-garde poets. It’s also — as unlikely as it sounds — a hotbed of reggae music. David Katz pays a visit, to investigate how this city more than two thousand miles from Kingston has adopted reggae as its very own, with a new museum celebrating the cultural link
Chorale Caribbean — Trinidad’s Marionettes celebrates 35 years By Rosa Hill | Issue 38 July/August 1999) Rosa Hill gives an inside look at the renowned Marionettes Chorale as they celebrate their 35th anniversary
The wisdom of Socrates By Garry Steckles | Issue 107 (January/February 2011) He's alive and well and living in St Kitts. And Garry Steckles finds the calypsonian with the philosopher's name is as savvy as his Ancient Greek namesake
Third World first By Roxan Kinas | Issue 52 (November/December 2001) Third World has had a profound impact on Caribbean music over the years. But nearly 30 years after their distinctive sound first arrived, are they classic or passé? Roxan Kinas hears the verdict
Calling Rubén González By Garry Steckles | Issue 52 (November/December 2001) In Riddem and Rhymes, Garry Steckles puts out a call for Cuban pianist Reubén Gonzáles
Black Stalin: King of Kings By Donna Yawching | Issue 51 (September/October 2001) Donna Yawching profile Black Stalin, the region's Caribbean Man
