00:00Boris Didi-Sambo, known by his super-k The Double King, visited TNT for two weeks after
00:12being invited by his brother who left France to live in this country.
00:16He tells us the vibe of Soca music drew him to the genre.
00:19It's this type of music, everybody has to move.
00:32That is why in Africa we have this, hot people.
00:37We need this type of thing.
00:39His brother, composer Marius Didi-Sambo, who goes by the name Blacka, notes that collaborations
00:45between Soca artists from TNT and African artists are not new.
00:50But he is making a distinction.
00:52That is first Central Africa in Trinidad to collaborate with Soca artists in Trinidad.
00:59Because sometimes they do something with Nigeria, Nigeria is not Central Africa, it's West Africa.
01:06Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana in Trinidad, they just know this part.
01:12First Central Africa is Congo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Gabon.
01:19The Double King, who enjoyed his stay in Trinidad, says while here, he listened to local Soca
01:23music, further highlighting Marshall Montano as one of the artists that he drew inspiration
01:29from.
01:30And he realized Trinidad artist is good artist and he loves culture.
01:39So he wanted to take his African culture, France culture and Trinidad culture to mix
01:46together to do something because he needed it.
01:59The Double King now has two collaborations with two musicians from Trinidad.
02:04The first is Soca singer Everett Purnell Sealy, a.k.a.
02:07Ras Pilot, and the song Queen Amo, a message translated to I want to stay with you.
02:13I saw the future where we could have come together and made it, you know what I mean?
02:30A beautiful song, a nice energy, you know, and when we came up with his part and I came
02:36up with my part, you know, we came together and realized, yeah, this song is good, so
02:40you know, we decided that we would go with this.
02:43The second collab, Mon Grand Amour, is with Hebron Brown, whose sobriquet is H-Breezy,
02:49a music producer who is now spreading his wings vocally.
03:01He played an Afro beat with a demo recording on it for the Double Kings team and things
03:06took off from there.
03:30Soca artists who are interested in collaborating can contact the Double Kings team at 685-1535
03:38for Blacka and 746-8736 for his manager, Lesley-Ann Reid.
03:46Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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