KINGSTON, Jamaica – Whereas their nation is synonymous with reggae, Jamaicans have all the time had an open thoughts in relation to different kinds of music. Together with calypso and soca from their sister islands within the Japanese Caribbean.
Rely singer Traz Di Jennik in that tolerant crowd. A dancehall and reggae artist who has been recording because the mid-Nineteen Nineties, he’s gearing up for Carnival season in Jamaicawith Get together Good, his first soca track.
The uptempo track was launched on March 14, two weeks earlier than revellers don their colourful costumes to occasion and ‘gwaan dangerous’.
Based on Traz Di Jennik, he did a soca track to “present my versatility” however believes Jamaicans will heat to the thought of considered one of their countrymen doing one thing completely different.
Traz Di Jennik
“My plan for Get together Good is to get successful out of it, as a distinct sort of music. I plan to market it identical to I promote the remainder of my music,” he stated.
Get together Good is co-produced by Traz Di Jennik, his spouse Lydia Campbell and Trevor “Skatta” Bonnick, lead singer of Grammy-winning band Interior Circle.
Bonnick has been a mentor to Traz Di Jennik since his early years within the music enterprise. He began his profession as Alkatraz and recorded songs for main dancehall producers akin to Steely and Clevie, Patrick Roberts and Donovan Germain.
He additionally had a liking for calypso and its frenetic offshoot, soca.
“Sparrow is my artist, Saltfish and all them songs I develop up on,” stated Traz Di Jennik.
Calypso had a presence in Jamaica lengthy earlier than reggae. Trinidadian Lord Kitchener lived and recorded songs there within the Forties, whereas his compatriots The Mighty Sparrow and Lord Creator are common had hit singles there throughout the Sixties.
Byron Lee, founding father of the Dragonaires band, began the week-long Jamaica Carnival within the mid-Nineteen Eighties.
