Morning Edition: 22nd December 2023

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00:00:00 (singing in foreign language)

00:00:03 - Come on studio, give us some energy.

00:00:16 It's the Friday before Christmas.

00:00:19 Yeah, good morning everybody.

00:00:20 I'm Marlon Hopkins, and as always,

00:00:21 welcome to the morning edition.

00:00:23 Let's take in some Paran music.

00:00:25 Yeah, I'm not wearing a tie today.

00:00:26 Here is the no tie zone.

00:00:30 So we do have our all star Christmas show.

00:00:32 We are going to be having some discussion this morning.

00:00:35 We'll try to have some laughs this morning, right?

00:00:38 And we'll try to have some entertainment this morning.

00:00:40 So that's the kind of morning we do have on morning edition.

00:00:43 It's going to be very, very exciting.

00:00:46 As you can see, I'm excited.

00:00:48 Yeah, hopefully the voice holds up, right?

00:00:51 Because of the painting and the dust and the so on.

00:00:54 You see what the effect it's having.

00:00:57 But I'll try to drink something hot.

00:00:59 Yeah, right there.

00:01:02 Yeah, to keep the voice intact this morning.

00:01:04 But it's going to be very, very interesting.

00:01:06 So we ask you to stay with us.

00:01:08 All right, let's check out the front page

00:01:10 of the Express newspaper.

00:01:11 Tunapuna School cops 13 scholarships,

00:01:15 among them two President's Medal winners.

00:01:18 Hillview on top.

00:01:20 President's Medal winner, Raika Haricharan,

00:01:23 and President's Medal winner, Nishka Maharaj,

00:01:27 celebrate at their Takoriga home yesterday evening.

00:01:32 Yeah, let me see if I could read a little more.

00:01:34 So the country's two President's Medal winners

00:01:37 said yesterday, "They both intend to pursue medicine

00:01:40 "and devote their lives to those in need."

00:01:43 The Education Ministry announced

00:01:45 that the President's Medal awardees,

00:01:47 following the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Exam results,

00:01:50 were Raika Haricharan and Nishka Maharaj.

00:01:54 And congratulations to you both.

00:01:56 We wish you well in your future endeavors.

00:01:59 All right, to the back page now.

00:02:00 Sport.

00:02:01 Windies do it.

00:02:04 Powells men overcome England for T20I series win.

00:02:08 Back on top, West Indies Aqeel Hussain celebrates

00:02:11 after bowling England's Will Jacks

00:02:14 during the fifth T20 International

00:02:16 at the Brian Lauer Cricket Academy in Taruba yesterday.

00:02:19 The five-match T20 International Series

00:02:22 between West Indies and England came down to the final over,

00:02:26 and it was the hosts who were celebrating in the end.

00:02:30 All right, congratulations to the Windies.

00:02:32 You know, it's always good when we see the Windies

00:02:35 come out on top.

00:02:35 It's not too often we see that, so we do appreciate that.

00:02:39 Congratulations to all.

00:02:41 I'm sure that the people who would have attended

00:02:44 the game yesterday were very happy.

00:02:46 Yeah, it's time to remind you of a Trinbago,

00:02:48 which is a really nice feature

00:02:50 to participate, WhatsApp your videos or images

00:02:52 to 737-3778, right?

00:02:57 We do have this for you.

00:02:59 It's an image of the nativity.

00:03:02 Beautiful picture there, yeah?

00:03:03 Someone would have sent this in, right?

00:03:06 Yeah, no?

00:03:07 Oh, okay.

00:03:08 That's from, all right, all right, all right.

00:03:13 Studio is doing that, so thank you very much, Studio.

00:03:16 And let me tell you, Studio is apparently

00:03:18 doing some great gifts.

00:03:19 Thank you, Dougie.

00:03:20 Yeah, I see a number of these items around Studio.

00:03:26 Yeah, so Dougie, thank you very much.

00:03:28 And sometimes, you know, over the past few weeks,

00:03:30 you saw some beautiful images.

00:03:32 Dougie would have provided us with that.

00:03:34 So it's all a part of the Christmas spirit here

00:03:38 on the morning edition, all right?

00:03:40 So as I said, we do have an exciting show for you.

00:03:43 A lot of energy this morning,

00:03:44 a lot of music for you this morning, all right?

00:03:47 As we celebrate Christmas.

00:03:49 If you have your coffee, you have your tea,

00:03:51 get something to drink, to eat,

00:03:53 and sit down and enjoy the program today, all right?

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00:06:33 (upbeat music)

00:06:37 ♪ Jesus in your Christmas ♪

00:06:39 ♪ Jesus in your Christmas ♪

00:06:41 Put Jesus in your Christmas this year

00:06:44 Came down here to save us from wickedness and chaos

00:06:48 Put Jesus in your Christmas this year

00:06:51 Put Jesus in your Christmas, put Jesus in your Christmas

00:06:55 Put Jesus in your Christmas this year

00:06:59 Came down here to save us from wickedness and chaos

00:07:02 Put Jesus in your Christmas, put Jesus in your Christmas

00:07:06 Put Jesus in your Christmas this year

00:07:10 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

00:07:15 [Instrumental]

00:07:25 After we done given life, born in faith and blaspheme

00:07:28 Come the month of December

00:07:32 You come up with your quack show and parental lip so

00:07:36 You shake up your lucky do

00:07:39 Put Jesus in your Christmas, put Jesus in your Christmas

00:07:43 Put Jesus in your Christmas this year

00:07:47 Came down here to save us from wickedness and chaos

00:07:50 Put Jesus in your Christmas this year

00:07:54 Put Jesus in your Christmas, put Jesus in your Christmas

00:07:58 Put Jesus in your Christmas this year

00:08:02 Came down here to save us from wickedness and chaos

00:08:05 Put Jesus in your Christmas, put Jesus in your Christmas

00:08:09 Put Jesus in your Christmas this year

00:08:13 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

00:08:17 [Instrumental]

00:08:27 And God so loved this world that he gave his only begotten son

00:08:32 Jesus Christ, and whosoever believe in Jesus Christ

00:08:36 Shall have eternal life, praise the Lord, hallelujah

00:08:40 [Instrumental]

00:08:45 Alright, give us some energy again, studio

00:08:48 I'm gonna be calling on you this morning for a lot of energy

00:08:51 'Cause that's the type of program that we do have for you today

00:08:54 It's the Friday before Christmas

00:08:55 And thank you very much for choosing Bay Morning Edition today

00:08:58 We have a wonderful show for you to begin

00:09:01 We have none other than a living legend

00:09:05 Edwin Ah-Yung, also known as Crazy

00:09:08 He's here with us this morning

00:09:09 And Crazy, thank you very much for coming this morning

00:09:12 But it is a significant time for you

00:09:16 Because we are celebrating 45 years of Soka Parang

00:09:21 Crazy, good morning and thank you very much for coming

00:09:23 Good morning to you and everybody out there

00:09:25 Crazy has sent a kiss for you all, a Christmas kiss

00:09:31 Oh yeah, that's the Christmas kiss

00:09:32 But Crazy, let's speak about the Soka Parang

00:09:36 Of course, Parang has been around for a while

00:09:39 Soka, around for a while

00:09:41 Why did you decide and why was it the right time for you to merge both genres of music?

00:09:49 Well, before 1978, we had the thing they call traditional Parang

00:09:54 They only used to sing the Parang in Spanish

00:09:57 We don't speak Spanish here, you know

00:09:59 So let us say somebody from Venezuela come to Trinidad

00:10:03 And we're singing things that is not good to us

00:10:05 And we wouldn't be dancing to it

00:10:07 Because we don't understand Spanish

00:10:10 But I think a band came from Venezuela sometime in 1977

00:10:14 And we're singing things like

00:10:15 [singing]

00:10:20 They were singing things about the races, different races, you know

00:10:23 Okay

00:10:23 And using the FN word and all that

00:10:26 And we were dancing to it

00:10:27 Really?

00:10:28 Yes, because we don't understand, we don't speak Spanish here

00:10:33 Say somebody, [speaking Spanish]

00:10:36 We don't know what they're saying, but we like the music

00:10:37 So we're dancing, you know

00:10:39 And that is all the Indian and whatever

00:10:41 And my father said, "They're cursing all you, all you dancing to that?"

00:10:45 People say, "We don't know what they're saying"

00:10:49 So that's how the idea came down to put English in it

00:10:52 Because if you're singing, that's how

00:10:53 I took the role of lead singer

00:10:55 That was the first Parang Soka

00:10:56 Really?

00:10:56 [singing]

00:11:00 People just call the song Maria

00:11:02 But the real name for the song is Parang Soka

00:11:05 It's the first time that word was ever said in Trinidad

00:11:08 That's the name of it, Parang Soka

00:11:09 So it's Parang Soka, not Soka Parang

00:11:11 Well, both of them is the same

00:11:13 But people, you know, instead of using Soka last

00:11:16 People put it first and they put the Parang last

00:11:18 But originally when I started it, it was supposed to be Parang Soka

00:11:23 Right

00:11:24 But it's the same thing

00:11:25 But is there a particular road you try to follow with Parang Soka?

00:11:35 Yeah, I try to follow the...

00:11:37 Put Jesus, most of my Parang songs, I mention Jesus in it

00:11:42 Because without Jesus, there is no Christmas

00:11:44 Also, I try to make it a family thing

00:11:46 You know, a family affair

00:11:48 Because Christmas is about children, family

00:11:51 But now the businessman come in it

00:11:53 Because the businessman capitalizing on the family

00:11:56 So it has the commercial side of it

00:11:58 And it also has the side where we have the children side

00:12:01 And the family side of it

00:12:02 That is how I saw it

00:12:04 Yeah, yeah

00:12:05 But I still do it

00:12:06 Because things change, right?

00:12:07 I still do it because I have a new song right now

00:12:09 Just play it on the radio

00:12:10 Some of the radio stations play it

00:12:12 It's named Family Parang

00:12:13 We are busy on family, without family

00:12:16 The Christmas, you know, without family

00:12:18 Christmas can't be like how it should be

00:12:22 So the first Parang Soka was...

00:12:25 Was Maria

00:12:26 Was Maria

00:12:27 I took the role of lead singer

00:12:29 Maria, Maria

00:12:30 And the second one was Muchacha, which was 1979

00:12:34 I alone was singing the genre at that time

00:12:38 In those days, I had a little 45 with the big hole in it

00:12:40 And I used to carry it to the record shops to sell

00:12:43 Like by Reiner's, you know

00:12:45 But people didn't like it at the beginning

00:12:48 Because in those days, we only had two radio stations

00:12:50 We only had Ready Fusion

00:12:53 And we had...

00:12:54 I can't remember the next station

00:12:55 I think it's...

00:12:56 6, 6 is the AM station

00:13:00 6 then?

00:13:00 Ah, that's it

00:13:02 Yeah, 6

00:13:03 You were about my age

00:13:05 You were about my age

00:13:05 You were 17

00:13:06 Ah, 17, yes

00:13:08 That day, I do those two stations

00:13:10 I use a plate

00:13:11 How many Parang Soka songs do you have?

00:13:15 I have about 60

00:13:17 Really?

00:13:18 I might have the most here

00:13:19 Every year, I do two or three

00:13:22 But now, the whole thing changed now

00:13:24 Studios start building rhythms

00:13:28 Just like how they're doing in the Soka

00:13:30 The Soka music now is different to how we used to do it a long time

00:13:33 Like in 1990, between 1990 and the new millennium

00:13:38 The Soka used to be...

00:13:39 You compose your song home

00:13:43 Then we'll find a chord structure with a guitar or a piano

00:13:46 And make a melody and a song

00:13:48 It's not so today

00:13:49 Today, the studio builds a rhythm

00:13:53 And when they build that rhythm, they invite artists to put words on that rhythm

00:13:59 Yes

00:14:00 Like a jam

00:14:00 So that is the trend today

00:14:04 And that's happening in the Parang Soka also

00:14:07 Yeah

00:14:08 Let's take a little bit of Maria and Kriz if you wish to...

00:14:12 Oh yes, my dear, let's play that whole thing

00:14:17 Yeah, 1978, this is the first Parang Soka we had in Trinidad

00:14:21 And the dance is like this

00:14:25 Ah, that's...

00:14:28 Yeah

00:14:30 Right

00:14:37 I took the roller now

00:14:39 Oh, that's the second verse

00:14:45 We're gonna try it from the top

00:14:47 Go back to the top because I didn't know it yet

00:14:50 Right, this is the top

00:14:55 So, I took the roller

00:14:57 Lovely singer

00:14:58 The bell cop was the emcee

00:15:07 When he introduced me

00:15:11 Like carnival

00:15:15 Maria

00:15:24 Maria

00:15:27 Maria

00:15:28 From Port Haspel to Faisabad

00:15:32 Everybody knew Kriz

00:15:34 Maria

00:15:36 Maria

00:15:38 But what was the response like?

00:15:42 What was the response like when people first heard it?

00:15:47 Did they accept it?

00:15:48 No, not one time, not at the same time

00:15:51 Yeah

00:15:52 It took some time

00:15:54 It took some time after the radio station started playing it

00:15:56 It took some time because at the beginning people said, "What foolishness are you doing?"

00:16:02 "What crazy doing? What craziness crazy doing?"

00:16:04 We are accustomed with this music, I call it Parang Soka

00:16:07 We are accustomed with this music in Spanish

00:16:09 Right

00:16:10 We come here, it's English thing

00:16:11 Yes

00:16:12 And I used to tell them the same thing

00:16:14 I say, I came and I brought it into English because

00:16:17 we don't understand, we don't speak Spanish here

00:16:20 So, if a band comes from anywhere singing this thing

00:16:23 and they might be using lyrics that we don't know

00:16:26 We can't just be dancing to anything, you know?

00:16:29 So, that is what

00:16:30 And after this song, what was the next Parang Soka?

00:16:35 Muchacha

00:16:35 Studio, let's get that song for Kriz here

00:16:40 Yeah, Muchacha was the second one

00:16:41 I alone was doing that genre, I do it for '78, '79

00:16:44 And then Francie came in 1980 with "Hooray, hooray, hooray"

00:16:48 Francie was the second person to start doing it

00:16:51 Right, right

00:16:52 So, that's history right there

00:16:55 Yeah, but except for you saying that you wanted

00:17:02 because of some of the types of music out there

00:17:05 you feel that the message was in a sort of derogatory way

00:17:10 But were you inspired at all by traditional Parang?

00:17:15 Oh yes, you see, why I was inspired by it

00:17:20 because my mother is from Venezuela

00:17:22 Yes

00:17:22 My mother is from Guerrilla

00:17:24 She came here in the days of Simon Bolivar

00:17:27 Simon Bolivar was the president of Venezuela

00:17:30 And things were kind of rough in Venezuela

00:17:33 So, she ended up here

00:17:34 and she met my father who is a local, trained, a Chinese

00:17:37 Right

00:17:38 And here I am, you know

00:17:40 Crazy

00:17:41 Let's take in the song

00:17:42 They call me Tio Loco

00:17:44 Tio Loco means Spanish in China

00:17:46 The Chinese call me Fung Kuang

00:17:47 All of that crazy?

00:17:49 Yeah, Fung Kuang is a...

00:17:51 Well, that's Cantonese Chinese

00:17:52 But the Chinese now from the other side

00:17:55 They call me Suk Suk Sosode

00:17:58 Suk Suk Sosode is Fung Kuang crazy in Chinese

00:18:01 What was the message in this song?

00:18:02 Which one?

00:18:03 This song that you're playing

00:18:04 It's just like, you know, Baron have a song

00:18:07 You know where Baron got this song from?

00:18:08 Spanish woman

00:18:10 Yes

00:18:11 Yeah, yeah

00:18:11 It's Baron...

00:18:14 Not Baron

00:18:15 It's about a girl who went to Venezuela

00:18:18 and she fell in love with me

00:18:21 You know, and when she saw me

00:18:23 she started singing there

00:18:24 I don't know what I'm saying there

00:18:28 but it's sounding good

00:18:29 It's a lot of songs too

00:18:32 I mean, they make it

00:18:34 but the singer don't know what he's saying

00:18:36 After when I find out

00:18:37 I will sing and tell him, you know, I love her

00:18:39 and I will treat her good

00:18:40 But I was poor

00:18:42 I'm poor, I might be poor

00:18:43 but I will show you love

00:18:45 That kind of message

00:18:48 Let's hear a little bit of this

00:18:49 I'm very rich, my uncle is rich

00:18:55 I'm rich, my brother is rich, my sister is rich

00:18:58 That's the dance way

00:19:00 Yeah, the little children do that

00:19:04 I was going to school, you know what I'm saying?

00:19:06 And all the children will be doing that

00:19:07 This is the Oakland like David Rutherford song

00:19:12 Bahia girl

00:19:13 Yes

00:19:17 Because David Ruther, his song was simulated

00:19:20 He came after this

00:19:21 He was in 1986

00:19:23 This is 1979

00:19:25 This was also a big hit in

00:19:27 Paransoka

00:19:28 This one was a big hit in Barbados

00:19:31 When I went across there

00:19:32 In those days I used to climb up on statues

00:19:34 Yeah

00:19:34 I climbed up on St. Mary's

00:19:35 We remember very well

00:19:36 Well, I climbed up on Lord Nelson's statue in Barbados

00:19:39 For sure that Merryman, Emile Shraker

00:19:41 called me to do a show in the pepper pot

00:19:43 And the show sold out

00:19:45 They even had Charlie Griffin and Wesley Hall

00:19:47 The two top Barbados basketballers in those days

00:19:50 They were the top

00:19:52 They came there to hold a table for me to sing on

00:19:54 Yeah

00:19:54 They have photos of all that here

00:19:56 You know, Crazy

00:19:58 From what you're speaking

00:20:01 You, even before Facebook and social media

00:20:06 You had a certain way of marketing

00:20:11 You as Crazy, your character, music, everything

00:20:14 You know

00:20:15 Yeah, the St. Ann's Hospital

00:20:16 I used St. Ann's Hospital to market my...

00:20:19 Because my name wasn't supposed to be Crazy

00:20:21 My name was supposed to be Crazy

00:20:23 Crazy

00:20:24 Yeah

00:20:24 In those days when I started to sing

00:20:26 Like in 1965

00:20:28 I wanted to go and sing with Sparrowton

00:20:30 Right

00:20:31 And my name was supposed to be

00:20:33 The manager there, Mr. Steve Taylor

00:20:35 He said, "Why do you call yourself Wong Ping?"

00:20:37 Because in those days I used to have more like a

00:20:38 Halle-Pang kind of thing

00:20:40 So I didn't like the name Wong Ping

00:20:43 It sounded too much like Rex West or whatever

00:20:45 Right

00:20:45 So my friend, Calypso Hite

00:20:49 He said, "Why do you call yourself Crazy?"

00:20:50 And I didn't like that

00:20:51 So when Mr. Steve Taylor, the manager of Sparrowton

00:20:56 Heard my voice

00:20:57 He's a big Barron fan

00:20:59 He said, "You and Barron have a similar voice"

00:21:01 So I told him, "Alright, what's your name?"

00:21:03 I said, "Crazy, call me Crazy"

00:21:04 And the girls now...

00:21:06 When they picked me to sing in the tent

00:21:08 The girls now who type out my name

00:21:09 To put it on the flyer

00:21:10 She put C-A-R-A-Z

00:21:12 And put two extra E's at the end

00:21:13 And misprint

00:21:14 Crazy

00:21:14 And they start looking, "Yeah, Crazy"

00:21:16 And I tell them, "No, it's Crazy"

00:21:17 But that name stick on me

00:21:18 Yeah

00:21:19 And with that word, Crazy, now

00:21:21 I have to take Crazy

00:21:22 Because Crazy is a bad word

00:21:23 It's a good and bad in it

00:21:25 Because when you're crazy you could kill people

00:21:27 So I say, "Well, look, I am a good Crazy"

00:21:30 So I try to make that word a good, crazy word

00:21:33 And I start going up to St. Ann's Hospital

00:21:35 For people to feel really crazy, you know

00:21:37 Really

00:21:38 Yeah

00:21:38 And then you had the big hair too, huh?

00:21:40 Yeah, well, in those days I had Afro

00:21:42 Yeah

00:21:42 It was new in those days

00:21:43 Afro was a thing

00:21:44 Like all the young people using Afro now

00:21:46 So I went to young people

00:21:48 They knew that there's nothing new

00:21:49 Afro is something that in the '70s

00:21:52 That was a big thing

00:21:53 I had the biggest Afro in Trinidad

00:21:55 My Afro was all over the place

00:21:56 Yeah, yeah

00:21:57 And following that song that we played just now

00:22:01 What came after?

00:22:01 What was the...

00:22:02 "Tata"?

00:22:02 Yeah

00:22:03 The next one was...

00:22:04 "Put Jesus in your Christmas"

00:22:05 Yeah

00:22:05 "Put Jesus in your Christmas this year"

00:22:08 Because I say, look, we have...

00:22:09 Without Jesus, we have no Christmas

00:22:13 You know?

00:22:13 And I had in mind also that children would like it

00:22:18 And you know, so I said, "Right now I go to a lot of schools"

00:22:21 "Mubarak"

00:22:22 You see, they call it

00:22:23 And the children like that one

00:22:24 They responded to that one

00:22:25 "Put Jesus in your Christmas"

00:22:27 "He came down here to save us"

00:22:29 "I'm speaking"

00:22:30 You know?

00:22:30 So I always have...

00:22:31 But you have a way where your songs to me

00:22:35 Are evergreen songs

00:22:37 Yeah, well, that is...

00:22:38 Imagine so many years later and we're still singing these songs

00:22:42 Yeah, well, you see, "Paran Soka" makes singers immortal

00:22:46 Look, alright, look, we have Kenny G

00:22:49 My good friend, I miss him so much

00:22:51 Yeah

00:22:51 Look, he died even Covid, yesterday

00:22:56 And his music would always play

00:22:58 Yeah

00:22:58 Because we're coming down in the car

00:23:00 I was tuning in and his songs...

00:23:02 Look, Sandra

00:23:03 Sandra who...

00:23:04 We call it so icon Sandra

00:23:06 She has a song named "Paramin"

00:23:08 Well, that song, they get a lot of it

00:23:10 Yeah

00:23:10 Yeah, so...

00:23:11 So, for like Barron, Scrunter, Massie

00:23:15 Those songs, every time we have Christmas

00:23:17 Those songs will always play

00:23:19 Yeah

00:23:20 Now, I know that you have a new song out

00:23:22 Yeah?

00:23:23 Yeah, yeah

00:23:24 Well, when I say that

00:23:25 Well, I have a new soka

00:23:26 I have two new soka

00:23:27 Yeah

00:23:28 And I have a new "Paran Soka" named "Family Paran"

00:23:31 Do we have that?

00:23:32 "Family Paran"

00:23:33 Yeah, it's on YouTube

00:23:33 Yeah

00:23:34 It's all about family

00:23:35 Without...

00:23:36 Without family

00:23:38 Christmas is for families

00:23:40 Children having toys and...

00:23:42 Play a little piece of it and let them hear it

00:23:44 When the poinsettia start to bloom

00:23:46 And you start to hear "Paran" tune

00:23:49 It's Christmas

00:23:50 Yeah

00:23:51 Yeah

00:23:52 Beautiful song

00:23:52 But they wouldn't play it because they don't have the commercial thing in it now

00:23:55 Yeah

00:23:56 It is too much about family

00:23:57 And then I put Jesus in it

00:23:59 So, time-out

00:24:00 Yeah

00:24:00 When the poinsettia start to bloom

00:24:04 And you start to hear "Paran" tune

00:24:06 Yeah, it's Christmas

00:24:07 It's Christmas

00:24:08 It's Christmas

00:24:11 People you have not seen for the year

00:24:13 Suddenly, just today appear

00:24:15 Hear that?

00:24:16 It's Christmas

00:24:17 And people just singing families

00:24:19 It's Christmas

00:24:20 We love the spirit, we love the unity

00:24:22 Which is peace, love and unity

00:24:25 As we greet Neve Nunees and Hans

00:24:26 Everybody sing in this chant

00:24:29 Right, you tell me

00:24:30 We wish you good health, prosperity and wealth

00:24:33 Sing with me now

00:24:34 Family

00:24:36 You see

00:24:37 Family

00:24:38 When you greet in the family, you can hug them

00:24:39 We are for sure loving each other ever more

00:24:42 You hear that?

00:24:42 Loving each other ever more

00:24:44 Because a lot of families right now, you know

00:24:46 Family

00:24:47 We'll be your blessing full of kind

00:24:49 It must be what is right

00:24:50 So, you write all of your songs for the family

00:24:52 Well, I write most of my things

00:24:55 But sometimes we have a lot of composers here in Trinidad that cannot sing

00:24:59 And they need somebody

00:25:00 So, sometimes they come and they bring lyrics or they bring melody

00:25:04 So, what I do to help them

00:25:06 I just take their melodies but I have to put me in it

00:25:09 Right

00:25:09 You know, so I have to make myself a co-writer

00:25:12 If sometimes they say, "Crazy boy, I'll write this"

00:25:16 But they can't sing it

00:25:17 So, I will take it from them

00:25:18 But I have to have my input here

00:25:21 Because sometimes they come with good ideas

00:25:23 But also, I think what we have seen with you over the years

00:25:29 Is that you are not averse to working with young artists

00:25:33 Well, right now, I'm doing that right now

00:25:35 Sometimes I give young artists songs

00:25:39 I help them with songs too

00:25:40 I help them with melodies, you know

00:25:42 And I enjoy working with you

00:25:45 Right now, we're doing about five or six young people things

00:25:48 And in schools too

00:25:49 Right

00:25:50 It's like they have competition in schools

00:25:51 I do, I work there with young people

00:25:54 How are you able to still remain so relevant?

00:25:58 Well, I don't know if it's the tablets I'm taking

00:26:00 I've taken a tablet right now from Dr. Love

00:26:05 The elephant type test

00:26:06 You know, elephants have good memory

00:26:08 Yeah

00:26:08 So, the name of the tablet is elephant type test

00:26:10 And I've taken this tablet and it's doing well

00:26:13 Because the material I have next year for Carnival

00:26:15 Right

00:26:15 Is a lot of lyrics

00:26:17 A lot of lyrics

00:26:18 And to remember these lyrics, you have to have memory

00:26:20 Right

00:26:21 So, yeah, I'm doing a song

00:26:22 Well, I don't want to mention the song

00:26:24 Right

00:26:24 You know what I mean?

00:26:25 But it's a lot of lyrics and the melody, you know

00:26:28 It's complicated like in time

00:26:29 So, it's a calypso then?

00:26:30 Yeah, well, I'm singing the calypso

00:26:32 Then I also have souka

00:26:34 You know, like I'm with the young people

00:26:36 Like what Marshall and him is doing

00:26:38 Yeah

00:26:39 I also do that too

00:26:40 I know, I know, I know

00:26:41 I also do Marshall thing

00:26:42 Plus, I just do social commentary

00:26:44 Yeah

00:26:44 And with the song that I start

00:26:46 I sing in next year in the calypso tent

00:26:48 Yeah

00:26:48 Some people have it

00:26:50 Some people say that this might be the biggest calypso of all time

00:26:54 Are you back in competition next year?

00:26:57 No, no, no, the competition, I don't think

00:26:59 The competition is more like the younger people

00:27:02 Yeah

00:27:02 Like Tazia, Chucky Gordon

00:27:04 Yeah

00:27:05 Yeah, yeah, yeah

00:27:06 Yeah

00:27:06 I leave that for them

00:27:07 But I was...

00:27:08 I know that you also have a new souka

00:27:12 Yeah, I have a new souka

00:27:14 I have two new soukas

00:27:16 Right

00:27:17 I have one named Head Gone

00:27:18 Head Gone

00:27:19 And the next one is I reply to Nadia Batson

00:27:22 Well, Nadia Batson has the biggest souka right now in Trinidad

00:27:25 Yeah

00:27:26 She has a souka named Market

00:27:27 Mm-hmm

00:27:28 And I know her little baby

00:27:29 Because I live in Tonopah now

00:27:31 Right

00:27:31 And I know her as a little baby

00:27:33 I say, "Who has a little baby in the family?"

00:27:34 You know me

00:27:35 Right

00:27:35 So now, she has this calypso Market

00:27:38 Which is the biggest souka right now

00:27:40 In about a month time she gave 1.something million hits

00:27:43 So I say, "Now, if this song is for women"

00:27:50 It's a woman's song

00:27:51 I say, "Let me do something for the men"

00:27:52 So I reply to Nadia Batson and the song is Hardware

00:27:55 All right

00:27:56 Yeah, Crazy Hardware

00:27:57 Let's hear it

00:27:58 Play Crazy Hardware and you all will get an idea of how...

00:28:02 You know, this song could be a big hit too

00:28:04 Uh-huh

00:28:04 [Music]

00:28:08 That's the song?

00:28:08 That's it

00:28:09 Yeah

00:28:09 [Music]

00:28:20 Julio, give her some audio

00:28:22 [Music]

00:28:32 He's like a dancer

00:28:33 [Music]

00:28:37 Like that

00:28:37 [Music]

00:28:45 You see, he has tools in his hands

00:28:46 Yeah, yeah

00:28:47 He has a saw and a hammer

00:28:48 [Music]

00:29:07 So this song has been released?

00:29:08 Yes, I released it on YouTube

00:29:10 Right now I have about 45,000 hits

00:29:14 Just in a few days

00:29:15 Yeah

00:29:15 So people apparently they love the song

00:29:17 Right

00:29:18 You know, and they like the lyrics

00:29:19 And I have to give some credit to a fella named Revelation

00:29:22 He's a reggae singer

00:29:24 But he came up with the whole formation

00:29:26 Then he put the lyrics together for I to sing

00:29:29 Because you know, the melody is not my melody

00:29:31 But I took it and I put it in the young people's style

00:29:34 Yes

00:29:34 So I have to give Revelation, Duran Manswell, some credit for this song too, you know?

00:29:40 How do you think that social media has helped the artists?

00:29:46 Because before you had to rely on the tent

00:29:50 You had to rely on radio play

00:29:52 How has it helped you all, you think?

00:29:54 Well, right now social media like different radio stations

00:29:57 Yeah

00:29:58 It has certain different radio stations

00:30:00 Because the fellas who want the radio playing the music

00:30:02 They start singing too, you know?

00:30:04 Yes

00:30:05 So now they will have their friends

00:30:08 So the radio now is who you know

00:30:13 Like if you're affiliated with a station

00:30:16 They will be playing

00:30:16 Or if you're singing in FETS

00:30:18 So the man who's not singing in FETS

00:30:21 And the man who's not associated with the DJs there

00:30:25 Would not get played

00:30:26 Right

00:30:26 Because it's a friend thing now

00:30:28 Different to like long time

00:30:30 Long time now it had less radio stations

00:30:34 And they used to play based on who have the song that people, you know

00:30:38 That people was requesting

00:30:40 So then the social media has really helped the artists?

00:30:44 Yeah

00:30:44 Oh yes

00:30:45 Because then you can release it there

00:30:46 And people can hear it there

00:30:48 And you can get a buzz

00:30:49 Yeah, we have Spotify

00:30:50 We have YouTube

00:30:52 We have different medias that you could put your song on

00:30:55 And sometimes it helps

00:30:56 It helps

00:30:57 Yeah

00:30:57 Now I know that you have some performances coming up

00:31:01 Yeah, yeah

00:31:01 Oh yes

00:31:02 Tonight

00:31:03 Tonight, all you look at tonight

00:31:04 You know Room, you know right now

00:31:07 The music is in good hands with Room

00:31:09 I don't know if you know Room

00:31:10 If you have the girls and them like him

00:31:12 A good looking fella like myself, you know?

00:31:14 He now having a show tomorrow night

00:31:17 Which is Saturday night

00:31:18 In the Teachers Training College

00:31:22 Right after Ness' on the highway

00:31:24 The Treators

00:31:25 Right there we have a big show

00:31:26 We have all the big stars

00:31:27 Scrunter will be there

00:31:29 Baron will be there

00:31:30 Destra will be there

00:31:31 Because Destra have a new parang together with Room

00:31:33 So that Teachers Training College

00:31:36 All you come out there

00:31:37 And then tonight

00:31:39 Tonight, Merchantson's second star

00:31:42 Yes

00:31:42 He have a place on Aripita Avenue

00:31:44 Just opposite Hassan Jai Rose

00:31:48 I will be there

00:31:50 And Room will be there too

00:31:51 We will be there all around nine o'clock

00:31:54 Okay

00:31:54 So come down by second

00:31:55 The name of the place is Second Rungs

00:31:57 I will be there to do some parang

00:31:59 So I'll be also doing the new socas

00:32:01 My new socas

00:32:03 So yeah

00:32:05 All right

00:32:05 Crazy

00:32:06 Well, it has been a very interesting morning

00:32:09 With you here

00:32:11 I want you to take us out with one of your classics

00:32:14 What would you like to do for us?

00:32:18 Well, we have to do

00:32:19 Let us do the first parang soca

00:32:21 All right

00:32:21 That we ever had

00:32:23 Which is parang soca

00:32:24 1970

00:32:25 It was a big hit in Barbados

00:32:27 When I climb up on Lord Nelson statue in Barbados

00:32:29 This song become a big hit

00:32:31 And a lot of singers did cover versions of it

00:32:34 Yes

00:32:34 Maria

00:32:34 Parang soca

00:32:35 Also known as Maria

00:32:36 Also known as Maria

00:32:37 Maria

00:32:38 So we could sing along everybody there

00:32:41 Let's sing along

00:32:41 Yeah

00:32:44 So

00:32:47 Raise the volume

00:32:48 Yeah

00:32:50 Let's go

00:32:50 I'll give them something man

00:32:57 Oh God

00:32:59 Crazy

00:32:59 Big singers like Henry

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00:33:07 They boo them

00:33:08 When they don't sing

00:33:10 You will tell them

00:33:12 With orange gating

00:33:15 Madimonyam

00:33:16 It was up there

00:33:18 Crazy

00:33:20 Is all people want to hear

00:33:21 El poquito

00:33:23 El poquito

00:33:24 This place have too much mosquito

00:33:26 Maria

00:33:28 Maria

00:33:29 Maria

00:33:31 Look into that camera crazy

00:33:33 Yeah

00:33:34 Cocorico

00:33:35 Cocorico

00:33:36 I got this from Toroco

00:33:38 Maria

00:33:39 Maria

00:33:40 Maria

00:33:42 Nico Daso

00:33:44 Alright

00:33:49 Craziness happening in this studio this morning

00:33:53 Crazy

00:34:02 It was a pleasure

00:34:03 Respect

00:34:04 Please come again

00:34:05 Yeah

00:34:05 We will invite you again

00:34:06 It was a pleasure

00:34:07 Yeah

00:34:07 Alright

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00:37:02 Welcome back everyone

00:37:03 I hope that you're enjoying the program this morning

00:37:05 As we head into the long Christmas weekend

00:37:07 We want to remind you to be careful of the nation's roads

00:37:10 To help us with that this morning

00:37:12 We do have Sharon Englefield, President of Arrive Alive

00:37:17 Miss Englefield, always a pleasure

00:37:20 Speaking with you, thank you very much for joining us this morning

00:37:22 Good morning

00:37:24 Thank you for having Arrive Alive on your program

00:37:26 Of course

00:37:28 As we move into, I mean, this is a long weekend

00:37:32 Miss Englefield, what's the message to motorists?

00:37:36 Okay, the message this morning particularly is about speed

00:37:40 You know, speed is determined by the excellence in our roads

00:37:44 And our infrastructure

00:37:45 As well as safer drivers

00:37:47 And therefore safer drivers

00:37:49 And therefore speed all over the world is being reduced based on traffic

00:37:55 And not only driver traffic, but pedestrians and cyclists

00:37:59 So we need to adapt our speed to the road conditions

00:38:04 The facts are that Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays, and then Fridays

00:38:10 Are the most deadliest days on our nation's roads

00:38:13 On the roads of Trinidad and Tobago

00:38:15 And that is this weekend

00:38:17 So we need to make sure that we adapt our speed to the road conditions

00:38:21 If the road infrastructure is not perfect

00:38:24 If it's a rainy day, we need to reduce our speed

00:38:27 And I cannot emphasize that more than we've done now and in the past

00:38:35 So please, let's slow down

00:38:37 Let's plan our journey

00:38:38 Let's make sure that we're leaving our home early enough

00:38:43 To plan for the additional traffic at this time of the year

00:38:46 Christmas week is always a busy, busy week on the roads

00:38:49 High volumes of traffic

00:38:51 So we need to plan our journey prior to leaving the house

00:38:55 You know, there are lots of technology like Waze that can help you plan that journey

00:39:00 And then make sure that if you're going out at night

00:39:05 That you've organized a Lyft home

00:39:08 You've organized a taxi

00:39:10 Or you've designated a sober driver

00:39:13 Let's not be distracted on our roads

00:39:15 Let's not be on our phones

00:39:17 It's very, very important that we heed all of these messages

00:39:23 Simply because road crashes, serious road crashes are all preventable

00:39:29 Yeah, Ms. Englefield, is there an increase or an uptick

00:39:33 In road traffic accidents during the Christmas season?

00:39:36 I'm asking, is there an uptick in road traffic accidents during the Christmas season?

00:39:45 Ms. Englefield?

00:39:46 Yes, there's always more accidents in Christmas season

00:39:51 So we want to make sure that we are, you know, ensuring our driving public

00:40:01 That we are being responsible

00:40:04 We're being selfless on the nation's roads

00:40:07 And that we are planning our journeys

00:40:10 Making sure we have sober drivers and not being distracted

00:40:14 Ms. Englefield, when you look at our behavior on the nation's roads this year

00:40:21 When you look at the data, what is the data telling you

00:40:25 About what has happened this year in Trinidad and Tobago on the nation's roads?

00:40:31 Well, unfortunately, we've had an increase in the number of serious crashes and fatalities

00:40:38 And what's alarming is that more than one death per crash

00:40:43 And that is quite alarming because that means a lot of passengers

00:40:46 Perhaps not wearing seatbelts

00:40:49 So, I mean, that is basic passenger safety that we must wear our seatbelts

00:40:56 We know this because, again, the facts tell us that some of the passengers

00:41:01 And even drivers in vehicles are being thrown out of their cars in particular

00:41:08 And therefore we must buckle up

00:41:10 We must buckle up front and back and make sure children are well secured in vehicles

00:41:15 I know that this year we also experienced a number of deaths concerning pedestrians

00:41:23 That has to be saying something about the behavior of our pedestrians

00:41:27 Yes, and we appeal to our pedestrians to please cross on designated crosswalks

00:41:34 And on the crossovers that we built for you

00:41:39 Very important, we are all pedestrians at one time or another

00:41:43 Whether it is that we're getting out our car to go to the supermarket

00:41:47 Or getting out our car to go to our offices

00:41:51 Let's make sure that we're crossing responsibly

00:41:54 We're looking right, left, and right again prior to stepping off of the sidewalk

00:42:01 And that we make sure that we use the designated crossings at all times

00:42:06 Those are there to protect life

00:42:08 You know, pedestrians and cyclists don't have a shell like we do when we're driving

00:42:13 And when we're a passenger in a vehicle

00:42:16 So we need to make sure that as pedestrians we're all crossing our roads responsibly

00:42:21 And also drivers, whether or not pedestrians are crossing our roads responsible

00:42:27 We don't want to be responsible for the loss of life

00:42:31 You know, whether it's our fault or the fault of a pedestrian

00:42:35 Especially at this time of the year which is a very, you know, emotional time of year

00:42:39 So let's all slow down

00:42:41 Remember that the international standard for speed

00:42:45 Most cities, most towns are reducing speed limits to 30 kilometers per hour

00:42:51 Where there's heavy pedestrian traffic

00:42:55 You know, they're doing all kinds of fancy infrastructure to slow down traffic

00:43:00 So let's remember that, that pedestrians deserve a right to our roads

00:43:06 Just like we do as drivers

00:43:09 They have a right to our roads, a moral right and a legal right to our roads

00:43:13 And internationally speed limits are being reduced

00:43:18 I can't emphasize that enough

00:43:20 Speed limits are determined, again, I will repeat

00:43:24 By the excellence of our roads and infrastructure

00:43:28 As well as the intelligence of our drivers, the education and training

00:43:33 And, you know, we can't ever be trained or educated enough as drivers

00:43:39 The speed limits need to come down in some areas

00:43:43 And I really have no sympathy for drivers who seem to not look at the big picture

00:43:50 Where speed is concerned in particular

00:43:53 Is there a particular age we're seeing that people are flouting the laws?

00:44:00 Is it younger drivers? Is it older drivers?

00:44:04 What are we seeing?

00:44:05 Well, the demographic is until the age of 34

00:44:10 They're the ones involved in the serious collisions

00:44:14 Where that's a concern

00:44:16 Unfortunately, I don't have the data

00:44:18 Of course

00:44:19 In front of me with regards to the merit point system

00:44:23 And the number of drivers that were under the age of 34 that got tickets

00:44:31 But I applaud the Toronto Police Service for being out there and enforcing our laws

00:44:38 The ticketing system and the demerit points are graduated

00:44:43 And once again, we need to look it up and ensure that we know the law

00:44:49 And because they're graduated depending on the speed

00:44:53 That we're going over the limit set on the various roadways

00:44:58 And I encourage the police service to be out there protecting life, being proactive

00:45:06 It's so much better than being reactive

00:45:09 Because we're saving lives, we're saving injuries

00:45:13 You know, we're saving families from losing breadwinners

00:45:18 Every life lost on the nation's roads means more families grieving

00:45:22 More families who are left without the financial resources to support, you know, the nuclear family

00:45:31 Yeah, which takes me to a question, Miss Inglefield

00:45:36 But why is it that so many of us motorists are not getting the message that we need to slow down?

00:45:44 We're also seeing pedestrians crossing under the walkover

00:45:49 So I'm just saying the messages out there, persons such as you and your organization

00:45:54 You continue to disseminate the message out there

00:45:58 But why is it that so many of us are not getting it?

00:46:02 I think that we've been allowed to be reckless for far too long

00:46:07 And therefore, you know, we need to continue the communication, the education, the training

00:46:15 We need to ensure that we have a consistent communication out there

00:46:22 To all drivers in particular and pedestrians

00:46:25 We could always do more

00:46:28 So Arrive Alive together with the Ministry of Education is in the schools

00:46:32 Under the National Road Safety Council

00:46:34 We're trying our best to teach and educate and encourage the transformation of behavior

00:46:41 It's very, very hard to change adult behavior

00:46:44 Which is why we supported the demerit point system

00:46:48 Because part of the demerit point system is re-educating drivers

00:46:53 Who have had their driver's permits suspended

00:46:57 So education and training are key together with enforcement

00:47:02 You know, I keep talking about the five E's of road safety

00:47:05 And education is certainly one

00:47:09 And of course, if we don't learn, we're going to have to feel it in our pockets

00:47:15 Unfortunately, some of us want to continue to push the boundaries

00:47:19 And therefore, that's why enforcement by the penalty point system is imperative

00:47:25 Yeah, I know that at the beginning or where the demerit point system was introduced

00:47:33 I'm sure that we did see a change in the behavior of motorists

00:47:39 But I think, Ms. Englefield, as we went along,

00:47:42 I don't know if they have become accustomed to it

00:47:47 I don't know if they are willing to accept the repercussions of the demerit point system

00:47:54 But somewhere, Ms. Englefield, I think that motorists have fallen off

00:47:58 Is it that the demerit point system needs to be reviewed

00:48:03 And make it more rigid, more stringent?

00:48:11 What more is needed?

00:48:13 I think supporting the police service being out there

00:48:18 Doing consistent roadblocks

00:48:20 And ensuring that drivers who are being reckless on our nation's roads are ticketed

00:48:25 I think that is one way to ensure that we get drivers' behavior to change

00:48:31 Certainly, all my chat groups were lighting up yesterday

00:48:36 When the police were out there on the Western Main Road

00:48:39 Slowing down drivers towards that new roundabout

00:48:42 And I applaud their work

00:48:44 They're out there in the hot sun giving tickets

00:48:47 That can't be an easy task

00:48:49 I also see the stats coming back from the police service

00:48:55 Showing the amount of roadblocks they've had

00:48:57 As I say, we could always do better

00:49:00 We need to make sure that we give them the tools they need

00:49:02 The speed guns, the breathalyzers properly calibrated

00:49:06 And working at all times

00:49:08 And of course, more manpower out there

00:49:11 Especially this weekend and going into the carnival season

00:49:16 Those drivers who are getting ticketed are talking to their friends

00:49:20 And I believe we will see a change in the behavior

00:49:23 Yes, the deaths have increased

00:49:26 But we have more and more drivers designating and organizing taxis

00:49:31 To go home from the various parties and fets

00:49:33 And the behavior will change

00:49:36 With a consistent communication plan

00:49:38 And the media being part of it

00:49:41 And having road safety on the front burner at all times

00:49:44 I certainly think the behavior will change

00:49:48 And let us all as drivers remember

00:49:50 That our loved ones are waiting for us at home

00:49:53 Our mothers, fathers, our sisters, brothers, our grannies

00:49:57 They're all waiting for us at home this Christmas

00:49:59 We just came out of Diwali

00:50:02 The light that we all believe in

00:50:05 We need to ensure that that light transforms our behavior

00:50:10 The light of Diwali, the light of Christmas

00:50:12 Transforms our behavior with supposedly such a religious nation

00:50:17 Let us go into 2024 being more selfless

00:50:22 And really practicing what we preach through our various religions

00:50:27 You know, it's so important that we heed these messages

00:50:33 Rather than feeling the brunt of the law

00:50:35 Because Arrival Eye will continue to support the police service

00:50:39 When they perform their duties in protecting life

00:50:44 Yeah, let's speak a little bit about defensive driving

00:50:47 Can that assist a defensive driving program that is mandatory?

00:50:51 Most definitely

00:50:53 We encourage the licensing office and transport commissioner

00:50:57 Under the Ministry of Works and Transport

00:50:59 To beef up all our licensing tests

00:51:06 Prior to granting the privilege to drive on our nation's roads

00:51:11 Our drivers need to be well educated

00:51:13 We need to be proactive with our licensing examinations

00:51:17 To include defensive driving

00:51:20 It should be mandatory within the licensing program

00:51:24 The training, not only the practical training

00:51:28 But theoretical training

00:51:30 So that people understand why speed limits are set

00:51:33 That people understand the risk of driving at a certain speed

00:51:38 The risk of driving when we're distracted

00:51:40 The risk of driving when we're under the influence of alcohol and drugs

00:51:46 We certainly need to re-educate our drivers

00:51:50 Who are already on the roads

00:51:52 And we need to reinvent the driving examinations

00:51:57 For all classes of vehicles

00:51:59 Prior to being given the privilege to drive on our roads

00:52:06 Yeah, and that's a good point Ms. Inglefield

00:52:09 Because I do think that sometimes we as drivers

00:52:12 We feel invincible

00:52:14 And sometimes we feel the bigger the vehicle that you're driving

00:52:18 You have that level of invincibility

00:52:21 And nothing can happen to you

00:52:22 But we have seen where truck drivers have been killed

00:52:25 We have seen where pickup drivers have been killed

00:52:29 So it's a situation now where there has to be

00:52:33 Really a cultural shift in the way that we're thinking

00:52:36 And also the way that we are driving

00:52:39 Almost certainly

00:52:42 As I said before, the transformation of behavior

00:52:45 Can't happen soon enough

00:52:48 We really need to think and plan better

00:52:51 It's a work in progress

00:52:54 There can be improvement in every aspect of road safety

00:52:58 Safer drivers, safer roads and safer vehicles

00:53:03 You know, we all have a responsibility

00:53:07 And we need to go into this weekend remembering

00:53:11 That we have loved ones

00:53:13 We don't want to have the tragedy of a lost one

00:53:17 Within our families this Christmas

00:53:19 And let's really be responsible

00:53:23 While we enjoy this season

00:53:25 Yeah, Miss Ingefeld

00:53:26 It's always a pleasure speaking with you

00:53:28 Thank you very much for your

00:53:29 Continued contribution to Trinidad and Tobago

00:53:33 We do appreciate it

00:53:35 And we wish you a very Merry Christmas

00:53:37 We wish you and your family

00:53:38 And we hope to speak to you sometime in the future next year

00:53:42 Bye for now

00:53:43 Thank you very much

00:53:45 Happy Christmas

00:53:46 Yes, bye bye

00:53:47 All right, so it's time for another break

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00:56:48 The Roman Catholic Church has not sanctioned same-sex marriage

00:56:53 This from Archbishop Jason Gordon who is seeking to clarify what the Vatican meant

00:56:59 when it said Roman Catholic priests can administer blessings to same-sex couples

00:57:05 So the Holy Father has not sanctioned same-sex marriage

00:57:10 That's just wrong

00:57:10 It's not in the text, it's not what he said

00:57:14 What he did say is if people come who are same-sex couple and they do ask for blessing

00:57:22 that the church should not ask about the state of morality of the person

00:57:28 The church should bless them

00:57:29 As the police complaints authority investigates last Sunday's deadly police involved shooting

00:57:37 at the court's megastore, the authority says it's just one of more than 740 matters

00:57:44 being investigated

00:57:46 For the year 2023 to date, there have been 58 fatal police shootings

00:57:52 compared with 43 for the entire calendar year of 2022

00:57:56 So for example, we investigate criminal offences

00:58:01 and the most common types of criminal offences are police involved shootings,

00:58:06 misbehaviour in public office and assaults

00:58:08 Regarding disciplinary offences, we investigate matters such as neglect of duty,

00:58:14 discreditable conduct and excessive use of force

00:58:17 And in the weather forecast, today you can expect cloudy periods with intermittent showers

00:58:24 There's a medium chance of a heavy shower or thunderstorm in a few areas

00:58:29 A yellow level hazardous seas alert is in effect

00:58:33 Seas will be moderate with waves between one and a half and two metres in height

00:58:38 in open waters and below one metre in sheltered areas

00:58:42 Temperatures are expected to climb to 30 degrees Celsius in Trinidad and 31 in Tobago

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00:59:20 To the grocery he went to pick up some bread

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00:59:46 His glasses were broken into two or three

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01:01:41 Hey, a very special good morning to the mighty Trini

01:01:43 That's one of my favorite songs, yeah

01:01:45 So we are continuing in the Christmas vein this morning

01:01:49 Mr. Robert Tobit, steel pan soloist, composer,

01:01:53 tutor and arranger with over 45 years of experience of a steel pan

01:01:57 He has toured internationally throughout Europe and America

01:02:01 He was privileged to meet the Queen of England in 2007 while on tour with the Trinidad and Tobago

01:02:05 Defense Force Steel Orchestra as its musical director

01:02:10 He also performed in Japan and Switzerland, right?

01:02:14 Mr. Tobit, thank you very much for coming this morning

01:02:16 Good morning

01:02:17 Yeah, well

01:02:19 I mean, we have given really, Mr. Tobit, your resume there

01:02:24 So, so, and, and I think that that was very, very important

01:02:33 I want you to, let's dig a little deeper into

01:02:39 Because I know that you are a member of the Defense Force

01:02:43 Yes

01:02:44 All right, so we have covered that

01:02:46 But your relationship with the pan, when did it all begin?

01:02:50 My relationship with the steel pan began when I started

01:02:55 comprehensive school, that would have been back then,

01:02:57 Batavia Senior Comprehensive School in Form 4

01:02:59 My mother was a classical pianist

01:03:03 But before entering school, I never had any interest towards the steel pan

01:03:08 Yeah

01:03:09 And what happened basically is that the first day we entered the class,

01:03:13 one of the former students from this existing steel orchestra

01:03:16 was going around to the different classes,

01:03:17 asking the teacher to talk to the class to see who was interested in joining the orchestra

01:03:22 And the guy came in and he asked the question,

01:03:24 "Who is interested in joining the steel orchestra?"

01:03:28 And I don't know what came into me

01:03:29 And my good friend next to me, Dean Charles,

01:03:32 I just hit him on the elbow and I said, "Let us put up our hand"

01:03:35 And we did like this

01:03:36 And that was the start of my life with steel pan

01:03:39 Yeah

01:03:39 By Form 5, I became the captain of the band

01:03:42 and I entered the school musical festival as a soloist

01:03:46 and played a song by the name of the Queen of Sheba,

01:03:49 which was the test piece for the big bands from 1980

01:03:52 And I played it as a soloist piece in 1981

01:03:54 So it didn't take me long to really elevate into the steel pan

01:03:58 And then when you got into the Defence Force,

01:04:00 you became a part of the steel orchestra there

01:04:04 Right, back in 1995,

01:04:06 Brigadier Alfonso retired,

01:04:08 actually for Defence Staff

01:04:10 He gave the permission to form an orchestra

01:04:12 So we did that

01:04:13 You're one of the founding members

01:04:14 One of the foundation members

01:04:16 We started with 10 members

01:04:17 and we entered the pan-ramashe competition at flour mills

01:04:20 And then over the years, you know, we started recruiting more players

01:04:23 and the band became bigger

01:04:24 and then we started touring internationally

01:04:26 throughout Europe and America

01:04:27 And what is the response like?

01:04:29 And I'm sure it continues today

01:04:32 Yes, it does

01:04:33 Because I believe the touring continues, right?

01:04:35 They just came back from Scotland the other day

01:04:36 But when you visit other countries with a pan,

01:04:40 because we usually see videos of it

01:04:43 and the response, it has to be overwhelming

01:04:46 It is overwhelming

01:04:47 And it's sad to see that the response that we get back there

01:04:50 is not the same that we get here

01:04:52 So when you perform, especially like in Scotland,

01:04:55 where you have an audience of over 10,000 people

01:04:58 every night for 23 nights

01:05:00 with two shows on a Saturday

01:05:02 And it's basically ageable, you know, Europeans

01:05:05 And they want to see where the mics coming from

01:05:07 They want to touch the pan

01:05:08 They want to touch our uniforms

01:05:10 Right

01:05:10 And nine out of 10 times,

01:05:12 we were the only all-black contingent performing at those shows

01:05:16 All the other contingents were of European descent

01:05:19 Yeah, steel pan and steel pan music

01:05:22 It's really still a very seasonal thing in Trinidad and Tobago

01:05:27 Yeah, they used to call us the happy people

01:05:28 because we're always smiling and laughing and having fun

01:05:30 even in our down time

01:05:32 All the other contingents would want to surround themselves

01:05:34 around us, come to our changing room

01:05:36 When there's a break within the show,

01:05:38 they would all come to our changing room

01:05:39 because the first night we started like at a rhythm section

01:05:41 and we're just having fun in our room

01:05:43 And by the second night, when there are shows and there's intermission,

01:05:46 we are actually meeting the other contingents

01:05:48 lined up in front of our door

01:05:50 waiting to get into our changing room

01:05:51 to have that 20 minutes rhythm section break

01:05:53 Right

01:05:53 Where they're limboing, they're playing on iron, anything

01:05:55 And when they say show start back,

01:05:57 everybody has dried their face and they go back outside

01:05:59 Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mr. Tobit

01:06:01 All right, well, I don't want to engage in too much talk this morning

01:06:05 because it's a celebration

01:06:07 Of course, we're speaking about Christmas

01:06:09 Mr. Tobit is here to play at least two pieces for us

01:06:12 Mr. Tobit, what do you have for us this morning?

01:06:15 I'm going to do Every Year, Every Christmas by Yusuf Andrus

01:06:18 and then I'll probably give them something traditional

01:06:20 like a traditional Pa'an piece

01:06:23 All right, thank you

01:06:24 Yeah, okay, we're getting ready for Mr. Robert Tobit

01:06:29 Yeah

01:06:37 All right, all a part of live television, people

01:06:40 Yeah

01:06:41 Okay, here's what

01:06:45 We are going to have a very short break

01:06:46 when we come back, Mr. Robert Tobit on the Pa'an

01:06:49 Right

01:06:50 We're coming back

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01:09:38 Welcome back everyone

01:09:39 So we are continuing our Christmas celebration here this morning on the morning edition

01:09:44 And we are continuing with Mr. Robert Topet on the pan

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01:15:02 Alright Mr. Topet

01:15:04 How can people get in touch with you?

01:15:08 My phone number is 725-3523

01:15:13 I also have steel pan albums, over 14 albums ranging from Christmas, Soca Parang, Reggae, Soca, Gospel, Contemporary songs

01:15:24 So I actually sell my CDs and I also have many music shops

01:15:28 Alright, okay, what's the next song you have for us?

01:15:31 The next piece we are going to do is a traditional punk piece called Anda Paranda

01:15:34 Alright, and studio we need to increase the audio a little bit so that Mr. Topet can hear properly

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01:21:09 Merry Christmas!

01:21:11 Mr. Topet, thank you very much

01:21:13 for being with us this morning and thank you very much for playing those two songs for us

01:21:19 Where can people see you over the next few days for the Christmas season?

01:21:23 Well, I'm actually doing some performances but after the Christmas I'll be normally on Frederick Street

01:21:29 right by Golden Doors selling my instrumental CD's and also flash drives available

01:21:36 Yeah

01:21:37 So you can get all the different genres of music

01:21:39 Yeah, Robert Topet, thank you very much for coming again this morning

01:21:42 You're welcome

01:21:43 Thank you very much for the energy and we wish you a very Merry Christmas

01:21:47 and we hope to see you sometime in the New Year

01:21:49 Merry Christmas to you, too

01:21:50 Thank you very much again

01:21:51 Studio also

01:21:52 Alright, bye for now

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01:25:25 Alright, so welcome back everyone

01:25:27 So a larger than life personality, Zachary Ransom is a 10 year old performer

01:25:31 Who aspires to be one of the world's most noted entertainers in the near future

01:25:36 He started his singing career at the early age of 4

01:25:39 When he bravely took to the Fizerbad, to a stage in Fizerbad

01:25:43 And he has never looked back

01:25:45 He's here with us this morning, Zachary, thank you very much for coming this morning

01:25:48 Thank you, thank you, thank you

01:25:50 Well Zachary, let's talk a little bit about the track we're hearing

01:25:54 Sing, Zachy, Sing

01:25:56 Tell us a little bit about it

01:25:58 Sing, Zachy, Sing is honoring Uncle Crazy

01:26:01 It's about the birth of Christ, how we should celebrate the birth of Christ

01:26:05 Yeah

01:26:06 And Uncle Crazy's giving me advice

01:26:08 Yeah

01:26:09 About how to do the soca parangan

01:26:13 Or to be in the Hall of Fame

01:26:15 Yeah, yeah

01:26:16 So is it that this is what you want to do?

01:26:20 Or do you see yourself going into things like calypso and soca and so on?

01:26:26 Or is it just parang soca?

01:26:28 Oh, every soca, calypso, reggae

01:26:33 Yeah, yeah

01:26:35 So you started doing this at the age of 4?

01:26:37 Yes, age of 4

01:26:39 Yeah, so over the years you have been participating

01:26:41 Let's say in competitions in the school and so on?

01:26:46 Yes

01:26:47 Yeah?

01:26:48 Yeah

01:26:49 And how successful have you been?

01:26:50 I've been

01:26:51 You've done well in the competitions?

01:26:52 Yes, I did

01:26:53 Yeah?

01:26:54 I could say that, yes

01:26:55 Yeah?

01:26:56 Yeah

01:26:57 So again, let's speak a little bit about Sing, Zachy, Sing

01:26:59 Who wrote the song?

01:27:01 Sing, Zachy, Sing was written by Uncle Prince Unique in Tobago

01:27:05 Right, right

01:27:07 And has the song already been launched?

01:27:10 Has it been released?

01:27:11 Yes, it has been released on YouTube

01:27:14 Yeah?

01:27:15 What's the response like?

01:27:17 The response?

01:27:18 Yeah, have people been liking the song?

01:27:20 Loving it

01:27:21 Uh-huh, yeah

01:27:22 You have any events or have you been booked for the Christmas season as yet?

01:27:28 Yes, I have my Christmas caravan on Boxing Day

01:27:31 On Boxing Day?

01:27:32 On Boxing Day

01:27:33 Yeah?

01:27:34 So members of the public are invited to it?

01:27:36 Yeah, if you want to come, you can come

01:27:39 Right, so that's it

01:27:41 Zachary and friends, yeah, first children's Christmas caravan Boxing Day

01:27:47 So, Zachary, so at the Christmas caravan on Boxing Day, what can we expect?

01:27:54 You can expect live performances, gift distributions from Santa

01:28:00 And we will be visiting three homes for children and putting on a show

01:28:06 Alright

01:28:07 And I have to say a big thank you to Cotton Radio Shack for letting us have the gifts

01:28:15 And also the fire services of Trinidad and Tobago for letting us have Santa

01:28:21 Yeah, so Zachary, here's what we need to hear a little more about Sing, Zachary

01:28:26 Sing, you know, you're going to perform it for us this morning?

01:28:29 Sure

01:28:30 Yeah? Let's hear the song

01:28:33 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Zachary

01:28:35 This is Uncle Brazier, the Soca Bar and King

01:28:38 Who has the same good topics

01:28:40 You'll have to meet the Olaf King

01:28:43 Last year I had a great time with my grandson

01:28:48 Singing every song, shant from country to town

01:28:51 This year for this Christmas I want to do the same

01:28:54 I want to sing my name in the bar and Olaf King

01:28:58 Searching for my song from the Soca Bar and King

01:29:01 I call up Uncle Brazier to tell him he wants to sing

01:29:04 He said, sing about the birth of Christ

01:29:07 Sing about the sacrifice

01:29:11 Sing about the atmosphere

01:29:15 Christmas creates every year

01:29:18 Sing, Zachary, sing

01:29:22 Sing, darling, darling

01:29:25 Sing, Zachary, sing

01:29:28 Sing, darling, darling

01:29:31 Sing, Zachary, sing

01:29:34 Sing, darling, darling

01:29:37 Sing, Zachary, sing

01:29:40 Sing, darling, darling

01:29:43 Uncle Brazier shows you topics well

01:29:46 And you will meet the Olaf King

01:29:49 Thank you

01:29:52 Christmas is a fun day for friends and family

01:29:56 The neighbours coming over to eat and drink with me

01:29:59 But who would ever more put Santa by the door

01:30:02 He looked in through our windows to brighten up the light

01:30:05 But I think he more the saviour the day that he was born

01:30:09 Playing in a manger from the break of dawn

01:30:12 Sing about the birth of Christ

01:30:16 Sing about the sacrifice

01:30:19 Sing about the atmosphere

01:30:23 Christmas creates every year

01:30:26 Sing, Zachary, sing

01:30:29 Sing, darling, darling

01:30:32 Sing, Zachary, sing

01:30:35 Sing, darling, darling

01:30:38 Sing, Zachary, sing

01:30:41 Sing, darling, darling

01:30:44 So Zachary, I understand that you also have a soca song for the carnival season

01:30:49 Yes, Rangatang

01:30:52 Rangatang, yes

01:30:54 Who wrote that song?

01:30:56 It was written by Uncle Shaft

01:30:59 Okay, alright, so this is the song

01:31:02 Yes, and it was produced by Mel Beats

01:31:08 Yes, Mel Beats

01:31:10 Alright, let's take in a little bit about Rangatang

01:31:13 Rangatang, Rangatang, Rangatang

01:31:16 Oh Lord, I love my country, oh oh country

01:31:21 My sweet country, I see you back in our country

01:31:24 I love my country, oh Lord, oh oh country

01:31:29 My sweet country, I love my graband open

01:31:34 So precious, look here, it must have passed when you touched down

01:31:39 And when you were in Trini, O'Carrie

01:31:42 And watch these carnival types in action

01:31:46 Oh gosh, I say, I saw heartbeat atop from this one island

01:31:50 This is where you see my come from, we got lots of tourist attraction

01:31:54 So come one day, and if you come on carnival time in our session

01:31:58 Choosing assassination, most investigation

01:32:01 Sweetie, I'll take your heart beat like

01:32:02 Rangatang, Rangatang, Rangatang

01:32:05 Rangatang, Rangatang, Rangatang

01:32:08 Rangatang, Rangatang, Rangatang

01:32:11 Rangatang, Rangatang, Rangatang

01:32:14 Rangatang, Rangatang, Rangatang

01:32:16 Zachary, you have to have some energy to sing this song, you know

01:32:19 I'm just listening to this song and I'm getting tired, you know, Zachary

01:32:22 Rangatang, Rangatang, Rangatang

01:32:25 Zachary, you have that energy to push that song?

01:32:27 Yeah

01:32:28 Yeah?

01:32:29 Yeah

01:32:30 So, have you performed that song yet?

01:32:32 Yes, I have performed it in Napa

01:32:36 Yeah?

01:32:37 Yeah

01:32:38 Alright

01:32:39 Zachary, so let's get back to this event on Boxing Day

01:32:44 When, where can people

01:32:46 because I know that you want people to make a contribution

01:32:50 where can people do that?

01:32:52 Well, you could call 775-5065

01:32:57 Yeah

01:32:58 which is my mother's phone number

01:33:00 and ask if I could do something for the Kavan

01:33:05 Alright

01:33:06 Are there any particular type of items that you all want?

01:33:10 Oh, no, we could take anything

01:33:13 Alright, good

01:33:14 That's good, Zachary, alright?

01:33:16 So, bring, right, good things, good things

01:33:19 Zachary, it was a pleasure speaking with you this morning

01:33:21 Thank you, you too

01:33:22 And I'm sure that we will see, we will see you in the future

01:33:27 Yeah?

01:33:28 Yeah

01:33:29 Have a good day, have a good Christmas, yeah?

01:33:31 Thank you, you too

01:33:32 Alright, good

01:33:33 Alright, so we are going to a very short break

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01:36:46 And that's the voice there of Soca Megastar

01:36:49 and two-time road march winner, Sherwane Winchester

01:36:53 and he's here with us this morning

01:36:54 Sherwane, thank you very much for coming

01:36:56 Good morning, thank you so much for having me

01:36:58 TNT, good morning and blessings to each and everyone

01:37:00 or every household

01:37:01 Good morning

01:37:02 Yeah, Sherwane walk with his rag

01:37:03 [Laughter]

01:37:05 He neotic, he matrix thing

01:37:08 As soon as Sherwane walk in here this morning

01:37:11 I say, boy, I want to see you walk with that ram, boy

01:37:13 You know

01:37:14 No, but that's a skill, eh?

01:37:15 Yeah, nah

01:37:16 That's a skill

01:37:17 Thanks, thanks

01:37:18 The rag is relaxing at home

01:37:19 and it's doing the countdown to boxing

01:37:21 they've seen Sherwane

01:37:22 I already, you know, I say, hold, hold

01:37:25 Slow down, slow down partner

01:37:27 So Sherwane, so we were just listening to one of your

01:37:33 the contribution for Christmas

01:37:35 Yeah

01:37:36 What was the name of that song?

01:37:37 That one is Mama, this one is for you

01:37:39 I have one that was just released called Christmas Fest for 2024

01:37:43 Yeah

01:37:44 This one was released last year

01:37:46 Yeah, and what has the response been thus far?

01:37:48 Oh, fantastic

01:37:49 That one was dedicated to all mothers

01:37:51 I wrote it in terms of Mummy Linda, myself and Barney Tenry, preacher

01:37:56 and so I sent that song out to my mum

01:37:58 and extended it to each and every household

01:38:01 all mothers throughout the world because, you know

01:38:03 Mummy's the gem, Mummy's the gem

01:38:05 Yeah, but Sherwane, I don't know that this is something new to you

01:38:11 writing songs for the Christmas season

01:38:13 I'm, I don't want to say a soaker writer

01:38:18 because I write different genres

01:38:20 Parang gave me some licks though

01:38:22 I just, there's a sway in Parang that I needed to learn

01:38:26 and thanks to the preacher I was able to get the hang of it

01:38:30 So I'm always working with him

01:38:32 so he will send the idea and I say, "Okay Sherwane, personalise it"

01:38:36 and then I'll go in and start moving around stuff

01:38:38 writing words, change melodies, add things to it

01:38:41 and we come up with the finished product

01:38:43 But isn't it a great strategy to release songs now

01:38:48 during the Christmas season

01:38:50 so that you get an early start really into the carnival season

01:38:55 Yes, once upon a time, most, let me use myself

01:39:00 Once upon a time I would think of the carnival season

01:39:04 and I would use that word season

01:39:06 Now, understanding and researching and learning so much more

01:39:10 the idea of a season has been removed

01:39:14 and it's my catalogue that's important to me

01:39:17 If you're a Sherwane Winchester fan

01:39:19 you don't want to have access to one song

01:39:22 You have different moods

01:39:23 In the morning you may wake up one way

01:39:25 and by lunchtime you feel a different way

01:39:27 Things would happen during the course of the day

01:39:29 You might fall in love with somebody

01:39:30 You see something, you're driving to work

01:39:32 you see a beautiful lady

01:39:33 You see, something's always happening

01:39:35 So I started to expand my catalogue

01:39:37 So for instance, this year I have 47 songs ready

01:39:40 47 songs?

01:39:42 47

01:39:43 So I started releasing

01:39:45 and I'm going to release until it's that time

01:39:48 Okay, shut that off, move on to the next project

01:39:50 and start releasing those songs

01:39:52 So when you go onto my Vivo channel

01:39:54 Sherwane W Vivo

01:39:55 you could just click and create your own radio station

01:39:58 Everything is there, all the songs, videos, content, everything

01:40:02 If you love Sherwane Winchester

01:40:03 I'm going to provide you with music

01:40:05 You just go and enjoy

01:40:06 Yeah, alright

01:40:08 Studio, I want us to go through the list of items

01:40:11 that Sherwane has here for us this morning

01:40:15 Let's begin with some of the contributions

01:40:18 for the Christmas season

01:40:19 and then we'll move into the Carnival season

01:40:23 Alright?

01:40:24 Yeah?

01:40:25 So Sherwane, again, just tell us the contributions

01:40:29 that you have for the Christmas season

01:40:30 Christmas Fest

01:40:31 That was just released for this Christmas season

01:40:34 Really loving that one

01:40:35 It's about, you know, I went to this Bacchia Jam

01:40:38 There's a paranga going on, singing a little paranga

01:40:40 but wait a minute, these people are carrying on like it's a fest

01:40:43 Yeah

01:40:44 Action, bacchanal and him performing this song

01:40:47 The reaction was "Mwah"

01:40:48 Yeah

01:40:49 So Studio, do we have Christmas Fest?

01:40:51 Sherwane Winchester?

01:40:53 As Uncle Crazy said, you can find us on YouTube

01:40:55 Is that it?

01:41:00 Yeah

01:41:01 That's Paranga Party, but we'll go with that one

01:41:03 Yeah

01:41:04 We are having a Paranga Party

01:41:06 Jamming all day

01:41:08 We are having a Paranga Party

01:41:10 Jamming all night

01:41:12 Bring on, tell them, drinks

01:41:14 (Singing)

01:41:22 A Paranga Party

01:41:24 Jamming all day

01:41:26 We are having a Paranga Party

01:41:27 Tell them, people

01:41:29 Jamming all night

01:41:30 (Singing)

01:41:37 Tell them, tell them

01:41:38 Who they calling?

01:41:39 (Singing)

01:41:42 I hear when they calling

01:41:43 What?

01:41:44 (Singing)

01:41:50 We are having a Paranga Party

01:41:52 Jamming all night

01:41:54 Bring on, tell them, drinks

01:41:56 (Singing)

01:42:04 A Paranga Party

01:42:06 Jamming all day

01:42:08 We are having a Paranga Party

01:42:10 Jamming all night

01:42:12 Plenty drinks, plenty food

01:42:15 To put you in the mood

01:42:17 From Christmas to Carnival

01:42:20 Who they calling?

01:42:22 (Singing)

01:42:24 I hear when they calling

01:42:26 (Singing)

01:42:28 Listen why?

01:42:29 (Singing)

01:42:30 Tell them, show it

01:42:32 (Singing)

01:42:34 Yo, show it

01:42:36 And if you know it's a good style, right?

01:42:38 (Singing)

01:42:44 With bass, bass guitar, quattro

01:42:46 (Singing)

01:42:48 A man with a mandolin in his hand

01:42:51 What he come to do?

01:42:53 You see they come up to jam

01:42:55 Tell them, we are having a Paranga Party

01:42:58 Jamming all day

01:43:00 We are having a Paranga Party

01:43:02 Christmas morning

01:43:03 All your neighbors calling

01:43:05 (Singing)

01:43:12 Woo!

01:43:13 Yeah

01:43:14 The voice there of Sherwin Winchester

01:43:17 And Sherwin has put my voice to shame

01:43:20 Sherwin's voice is sounding so beautiful this morning

01:43:23 Listen to my voice

01:43:25 Sherwin doing all kind of things

01:43:28 So there's Christmas Fest

01:43:30 Do we have Christmas Fest?

01:43:32 Alright

01:43:34 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:43:36 Just play what you have

01:43:38 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:43:40 And this is a stamp in time

01:43:42 We'll never forget that period

01:43:43 Which I hope never returns

01:43:45 But you know

01:43:46 You could never stop the Parang there, Uzair

01:43:48 Regardless of what

01:43:49 Even long ago I heard persons would take their lights off

01:43:52 But now

01:43:53 The men have been for a while and think

01:43:54 They say wait now

01:43:55 It seems too light on

01:43:56 They duck in by the couch

01:43:58 Parang in the tail

01:44:00 They don't mind Parang in the wrong house

01:44:02 Yeah, do we have it?

01:44:04 (Singing)

01:44:10 Woo!

01:44:11 (Singing)

01:44:13 All you know this right?

01:44:14 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:44:16 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:44:18 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:44:20 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:44:22 Never never ask you to come inside

01:44:24 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:44:26 Take off the light

01:44:27 I is a man with pride

01:44:28 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:44:30 I don't tell you what passing by

01:44:32 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:44:34 So put everything outside

01:44:37 This Christmas coming

01:44:39 Is physically stunting

01:44:41 I don't want no surprise

01:44:43 This Christmas you must be wise

01:44:45 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:44:46 Listen lady

01:44:47 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:44:48 Bring it baby

01:44:49 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:44:50 All things for me

01:44:51 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:44:52 Woo!

01:44:53 (Singing)

01:44:56 Bring it out

01:44:57 Oh no no no no no no

01:45:00 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:45:02 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:45:04 Never leave the drinks by the gate

01:45:06 Listen

01:45:07 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:45:08 Never you still insist that I come

01:45:11 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:45:12 I soaking me mask in something strong

01:45:15 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:45:16 I sanitizing me punching round

01:45:19 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:45:20 It gon' kill everything and done

01:45:24 This Christmas coming

01:45:25 Is physically stunting

01:45:27 I don't want no surprise

01:45:29 This Christmas let's be wise

01:45:31 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:45:32 Listen lady

01:45:33 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:45:34 Honey baby

01:45:35 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:45:36 Listen to me

01:45:37 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:45:38 Woo!

01:45:39 (Singing)

01:45:47 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:45:48 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:45:50 Never

01:45:51 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:45:52 Leave the drinks by the gate

01:45:54 Tell him

01:45:55 Never never you don't want to fight

01:45:57 Alright, nice Sherwane.

01:45:58 Sherwane, so alright.

01:46:00 Do you have any more contributions for the Christmas season?

01:46:03 No, that the Christmas Fest is my param contribution

01:46:07 and then we started releasing for the carnival season.

01:46:09 But you also have a song with Baron right?

01:46:11 Yes.

01:46:12 An earlier song.

01:46:13 Yeah man, earlier prime releases.

01:46:15 This is my cultural father.

01:46:18 Baron, enough love to you.

01:46:20 (Singing)

01:46:26 Merry Christmas to each and every household.

01:46:29 Feel the spirit.

01:46:32 (Singing)

01:46:36 Tell him Baron.

01:46:37 (Singing)

01:46:44 The joy that you feel.

01:46:46 (Singing)

01:46:53 Tell him.

01:46:54 (Singing)

01:47:19 (Singing)

01:47:47 Alright everybody, so Sherwane Winchester is here with us this morning.

01:47:50 We are going to have a very short break.

01:47:52 When we come back, Sherwane with his contributions for carnival.

01:47:56 We're coming back.

01:47:57 (Singing)

01:48:08 Bravura Arts presents, Harmonies of the Season.

01:48:14 (Singing)

01:48:21 It's a beautiful way to start the Christmas season.

01:48:23 (Singing)

01:48:27 Very good, very entertaining.

01:48:29 I was singing along and you know I enjoyed everything.

01:48:32 (Singing)

01:48:34 It was very good.

01:48:35 I think it was worth more than the price we paid to come in.

01:48:39 It was really enjoyable.

01:48:40 It was excellent.

01:48:41 Those people who didn't come to this concert, miss.

01:48:45 So all of them, don't miss the next one.

01:48:48 At 4pm on Christmas Day, right here on TV6.

01:48:54 (Singing)

01:48:58 Hola, my name is Elena.

01:49:01 It's actually not my real name.

01:49:04 You don't really care, do you?

01:49:07 All you care about is once you pay your money to my boss that I look pretty, smell nice, smile for you, and let you have a good time.

01:49:18 Enjoying yourself and doing to me whatever you want to do for the money you pay.

01:49:23 What you don't see or know is that I don't get any part of the money you pay.

01:49:29 My boss takes all of it.

01:49:31 I am forced to work, taking as many clients as my boss tells me to.

01:49:37 I am beaten, made to take drugs, and I cannot leave this kind of work on my own.

01:49:45 I am a victim of human trafficking.

01:49:49 Please, por favor, help me.

01:49:54 (Music)

01:49:59 (Singing)

01:50:08 The voice there of Sherwane Winchester, one of his contributions for the Carnival 2024.

01:50:14 Sherwane, what's that we're listening to?

01:50:16 This is called Iron Man on the box bass rhythm.

01:50:19 It has two other artists on the rhythm produced by Shep Masterjee and Kyle Phillips.

01:50:27 That's Rocky and Mr. Professor on the other rhythm.

01:50:30 This song has already been released?

01:50:33 Yes, this rhythm is out right now.

01:50:34 You can check it out on YouTube and the stations have it, but go to social media and enjoy listening to it.

01:50:39 What has the response been thus far?

01:50:40 Fantastic.

01:50:41 Sounds like a powerful song.

01:50:43 The video as well is out.

01:50:44 We have about four songs out thus far.

01:50:48 Sherwane, let's take in a little bit of this song for us.

01:50:51 Iron Man?

01:50:52 Yes.

01:50:53 We're getting up, Sherwane.

01:50:54 We're getting up.

01:50:55 (Music)

01:50:59 (Singing)

01:51:17 (Singing)

01:51:37 (Singing)

01:51:55 Sherwane, I have to give you…

01:51:57 (Laughing)

01:51:59 Oh, let's stop the music.

01:52:00 (Laughing)

01:52:04 We have to give you what we have.

01:52:08 (Singing)

01:52:26 (Singing)

01:52:55 (Singing)

01:53:24 Sherwane, you have another one?

01:53:25 Yes, we have…

01:53:26 (Music)

01:53:28 Oh, with the mighty Sparrow.

01:53:30 (Singing)

01:53:33 This is called my Island Game.

01:53:34 (Singing)

01:53:55 (Singing)

01:54:14 Sherwane, how can people get in touch with you?

01:54:17 You can check out Sherwane, Manchester on my social media platforms.

01:54:21 Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, everything I do is Sherwane, Manchester.

01:54:26 And remember, the 4th of January, Addiction, the premium all-inclusive breakfast party where you get treated as I would like to.

01:54:34 I'm the host and I extend my personal time and service to you.

01:54:38 Great food, drinks, premium drinks, everything.

01:54:42 And a fun fact, backyard jam that you get to experience how I do it.

01:54:48 Real Tobago welcome.

01:54:50 See you guys around.

01:54:51 Alright, Sherwane, thank you very much for coming this morning.

01:54:53 Thank you very much for spending the morning with us.

01:54:55 Thank you.

01:54:56 (Laughing)

01:54:58 To you all, have a happy Christmas, holy Christmas.

01:55:02 We'll see you here next week, Wednesday.

01:55:06 Yeah?

01:55:07 Bye-bye, everybody.

01:55:10 Woo, out Sherwane.

01:55:13 (Laughing)

01:55:15 Two songs playing.

01:55:17 (Music)

01:55:21 (Singing)

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