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00:00 Welcome viewers to another episode of Carnival One Stop and we are filming at the beautiful
00:18 Shaka Kabali Resort and Beach Lounge.
00:21 Now one of our guests today is someone who has touched probably every genre of music
00:26 to come out of Trinidad and Tobago.
00:29 I am talking about the one and only the icon Mr. Edwin Crazy Aiyong.
00:35 Uncle Crazy welcome and thank you for chatting with us.
00:39 Yes, it's a pleasure being here.
00:44 Now you have a lot of music out already over the decades and you're still releasing new
00:48 music in 2023.
00:50 So tell us about your songs.
00:52 Well this year I have about 8 songs and I have a release still, I'm waiting until everybody
01:01 releases then I will come with this song.
01:04 So you come into a busser mark just now then?
01:06 I think so, I like that, come into a busser mark just now.
01:12 But I have a lot of songs, I have different types of songs.
01:15 I have groovy soca, I have calypso, you know calypso is like in time to come, classic calypso.
01:24 I have a…
01:27 I think you're in chutney this year.
01:29 Chutney too yes.
01:30 Singing chutney I have about doubles.
01:32 I don't sing the kind of chutney that will rum and all that.
01:35 I sing in constructive chutney because I want to build back chutney music into a lyrical
01:40 content, strong lyrical content like family, singing about family values and what you know.
01:47 So that is the kind of thing.
01:48 I sing about doubles in the chutney final there.
01:53 Singing about how doubles is a nice, doubles used to be a poor man food but right now with
01:58 our big businessmen, people come down here like when Obama came here he doubles.
02:02 You know so I have a good bit of songs this year, I think it's 8.
02:09 Now you're also in the calypso tense.
02:12 I saw you opening night, classic Russo.
02:15 Tell us about your calypso offerings first for this year.
02:18 Yeah well, my calypso this year I think you know it's every 40 years it will be a calypso
02:23 like this.
02:24 My calypso is a family scandal where soca music has taken over because like let me say like
02:32 20 years or 25 years ago the calypso tense used to be pack but right now the soca take
02:39 over.
02:40 So the soca artists now they don't want to hear nothing about calypso again.
02:44 But calypso is the mother of soca and it's also the mother of reggae because reggae and
02:50 soca came from calypso you know.
02:53 So I am saying that soca abuse, abuse calypso.
02:57 I say you get old, you get old but then calypso told soca in the music that I am your mother
03:05 how could you treat me like this?
03:06 How could you say I getting old and I should done with that?
03:09 I dare say in the days of slavery and the Cambodian riots is I who have you there you
03:15 know.
03:16 What is done in the music world where you used to be sublime?
03:38 You know one of the things calypso music does and you know we would all agree is that it
03:54 teaches us history.
03:56 So you are now bringing some of that history because if you listen to some of the popular
04:01 artists now in the soca arena you hear those origins of kaiso you know and the undertones
04:08 and so on.
04:09 So what you are saying you know I mean we are seeing it right here and right now.
04:12 Yes because I heard some of the young like I heard Patrice Roberts doing one of thing
04:17 Bonjie some of the artists bringing in the calypso like the girl who I am this girl what's
04:24 her name?
04:25 Anitka.
04:26 Yes she took one of power songs.
04:27 I come in, I come in, I come in.
04:29 So they start bringing in calypso into it which is very good.
04:32 I come out here to run wine and the soaps were in my decision.
04:38 They say I am a grandpa now and I am too old for them things like jamming and whining down
04:43 and being calypso king.
04:45 They say I must concentrate on old school and example because it is a bit too late to
04:50 test my shell muscle.
04:51 They say I am too old for soca.
04:52 They say that I should retire.
04:53 They say if I come to party I should retire.
04:54 They say I should retire.
04:55 They say that I should retire.
05:02 They say if I come to party they say I got to be crazy.
05:05 Well you see what happened in India right now Marshall Montano is the king of soca.
05:11 His first big hit was Too Young to Soca when he was I think 10 years old.
05:16 They say I am too young to soca.
05:18 So now it is a tribute to the man who composed that song.
05:21 I am paying a tribute to a fellow by the name of Dr. Wilsford Joker De Vins.
05:26 He is one of the greatest calypso writers ever in Trinidad and Tobago.
05:30 He wrote 91 songs of Sparrow.
05:32 I know who wrote them.
05:33 Both of us used to compose together.
05:36 What he does is after when he got his stroke he used to write lyrics.
05:40 He is very strong at lyrics and I used to do the melodies for them.
05:45 So I am paying a tribute to him in that song because he died last year the 22nd of June
05:51 2021 and everybody seems to forget him.
05:55 I think for this mother of carnival he should be included.
05:59 Somebody should do something for him.
06:00 And nobody so I decided to pay a tribute to him by singing Too Old to Soca which is Marshall's
06:06 first big hit.
06:08 And the people like it.
06:10 What I am saying there is that sometimes somebody might be old.
06:15 Right now on the radio stations only playing younger artists.
06:19 So I am saying that I am not too old to soca.
06:22 Look I have a song.
06:24 I have a young people song.
06:26 I don't know what wrong with this young girl but like something wrong with this.
06:29 She calling me you know what I'm telling me I could do this too.
06:34 But you see when you reach a certain age.
06:36 Right.
06:37 The certain radio stations do not play a song.
06:41 So I am glad to be talking about this on your show now.
06:45 You know.
06:46 So some of the people out there you almost requested.
06:48 If a man like me who is close very close to 80 you know come with us a young people song.
06:53 But this is what I look I have one in Stink and Dirty.
06:57 You know Stink and Dirty.
06:58 It is a fun thing because I tell any some of the young people that go to parties that
07:03 as soon as you leave work the first thing you should visit is a shower.
07:07 Go and take a shower and then you can go to a party.
07:11 But some of them if they mixing concrete all day they go on in Marshall's.
07:14 You know.
07:15 So it's a nice little fun thing.
07:16 I think they laugh at but the melody and the way and the attitude of how I approach the
07:20 song you know.
07:21 I do a lot of young people things.
07:25 So Uncle Crazy how many decades have you been doing this?
07:29 This year will be 56 years.
07:31 Well I'm singing professionally Calypso since 1972.
07:35 But before I was singing Calypso in the tent which I started off with Sparrow.
07:40 I used to sing with Mano Marslin band.
07:43 Mano Marslin is a brass band.
07:45 In those years Mano Marslin, Ray Sylvester, Fitz Von Brian they had these bands there.
07:52 But in those days it didn't have any vocalists in the band.
07:57 Most of the bands in those times used to be brass bands playing the melody.
08:02 Like in 1965 the bands and Sparrow's song is "Sa Sa Yeh Sa Sa" they didn't have no singer
08:10 in those days.
08:11 The brass band would play that.
08:15 But Mano Marslin and myself used to work in Makkani together.
08:19 And he told me, "Crazy why don't you come and sing with the band?"
08:21 So he heard me singing some of Spoiler Calypso's and he find I was good.
08:25 So he said, "Why don't you come and sing some cover versions?"
08:30 And I went and I practiced with the band and I started singing with them.
08:34 So I believe that I was one of the first band singers in those days.
08:38 They used to play in Paragon and Chinese and you know.
08:42 I'm talking about like the early 70s.
08:45 So for all the years you're performing, do you feel excited?
08:49 Do you get nervous when you're facing that fiesta crowd when you're going to the parties?
08:53 How do you feel?
08:54 Yesterday has come and gone, leaving some of us to mourn.
08:55 Times we had and friends we lost, and while they took its course, we have seen.
08:56 The many faces of slavery, we have seen the British Empire fall.
09:19 We have seen Hitler's contribution to history.
09:25 We have seen the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall.
09:31 What would have inspired you to go into all of these genres?
09:34 I mean Parang Sokka, you were the king of it all.
09:38 You went into Chutney Sokka, you were into Calypso, you do the Sokka music.
09:44 That is what I always tell the youths and them that.
09:48 It's like on this interview here, if you ask me, "Crazy, what message do you have for the
09:52 youths who love our music and want to do it?"
09:56 What I will tell them is what you know works there.
09:58 Learn all the genres in the music.
10:01 If you're only doing one thing, for instance like this year, 2023, right?
10:06 If they leave me out of the Sokka, they're not playing my song on the radio, I could
10:09 jump into Chutney.
10:10 That is why I tell them to learn all the genres.
10:13 If you're not into Chutney, go and sing Calypso.
10:16 I sing Calypso too, because I sing it in a tent, I sing it in Chutney.
10:21 If they want social commentary, I have that.
10:23 If they want humor, you know songs like, "Once upon a time, a woman named Millie, she always
10:29 on a line, fellas call she silly.
10:32 She hire a man to sweeten she coffee, the girls call him Stan, she call him Sofie, Sofie.
10:38 So he went and he buy her a set of Viagra, to close up she mouth 'cause she was a bragga.
10:44 He swallow about ten, then took her to bed, early the next morning, wake up dead, blood
10:49 running through his eyes, ears and his nose.
10:51 They put him in a casket, the lid can't close.
10:54 When they tried to bury him, he opened his eyes, telling them Viagra 'cause he dare to
10:59 rise.
11:00 It happened to Begul last week.
11:01 You know what I mean?
11:02 It's good for the character.
11:07 Much more still to come on tonight's episode, so don't go anywhere.
11:11 We're taking a break, but still here at Shakakibana Beach Resort.
11:15 We'll be right back.
11:16 Crazy say, a prayer a day could keep the devil away.
11:17 Children, so come let me pray.
11:18 Children, uncle say, one prayer a day could keep the devil away.
11:19 Children, so come let me pray.
11:20 Time to seek the almighty face, and turn from all wicked ways.
11:21 What's your motivation?
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