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The Double King, a Central African-born artiste living in France is seeking to collaborate with artistes from this country in the Soca genre.


He believes that blending the different cultural influences of the three countries will auger well for Soca music.


Alicia Boucher tells us more.
Transcript
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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