Ras shorty i biography of martin

Musician

Ras Shorty I, photograph.

[ October 06 - July 12] Ras Shorty I, born Garfield Blackman and also known as Lord Shorty, was a Trinidadian calypsonian and soca.

Marge Blackman a musical artist from Trinidad and Tobago.

He was born Garfield Blackman in Barrackpore, Trinidad and Tobago,and rose to fame as Lord Shorty with his hit "Clock and Dagger" and took.

Because her father Ras Shorty I taught her how.

Ras-I, born Immanuel Kerr, in Kingston, Jamaica.

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One of the few musicians of modern times who could claim to have almost single-handedly created a long-lasting musical genre, Ras Shorty I, formerly known as Lord Shorty, was one of the most creative figures to emerge from the Caribbean island of Trinidad.

With hits such as "Indrani" and his album Endless Vibrations, Shorty created a new variant of Trinidadian calypso music; known as soca, it was still vital and flourishing at the time of Shorty's death almost 30 years later.

Shorty's own musical career was durable as well; he changed directions several times without losing any of his popularity in Trinidad.

Shorty was born Garfield Blackman in the southern Trinidadian community of Lengua on October 6, The area in which he grew up was heavily populated by the descendants of indentured servants Trinidad's British colonizers had brought from India, and he heard their music along with the lilting but satirical lo