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In reply to problemjay

She left the 5 people who turned up spellbound. Congrats.

In reply to problemjay Don't get carried away.No surprise, nothing to write home about.
Carnival 1979 "No reggae in we Carnival" when everybody's playlist had reggae songs/compositions.
One Jamaican radio station played a calypso every morning at 7.10 am it was called calypso corner, six (6) days a week.In those days no calypso/soca was heard on any T&T radio station from Ash Wednesday until pre carnival kicked off in November.(This changed in 1978 when stations started playing Merchant in July or thereabouts.
The Mighty Sparrow had been performing in Jamaica with Byron Lee for years.Also after that Savannah incident, when he did not perform in T&T, he was in Jamaica.
Jamaicans are pretty open to different genres.You should have seen Jamaicans at a Desperados(Gay Desperados then) performance at Carifesta in 1976.
There is also what could now be a sizeable Jamaican/T&T community.

In reply to alfa1975

I respect your input, you seem very knowledgable on the historical influence of T&T music in Jamaica. I know Calypsonians like Sparrow and Kitchener were big names in JA during the 1970's and I know the very older heads in JA still appreciate their music. I am also aware of Byron Lee and how much he has tried and definitely had success with establishing a Carnival element in JA over the years. However my post was targeting young Jamaicans, because their is still widespread opinion that most young Jamaicans do not care for Soca music, but if it is true Carnival is getting bigger and bigger in JA every year then Soca music is also growing as well. So I guess it will be beneficial to see some raw stats from a valid source as to what is the interest in Soca by young Jamaicans as of today.

In reply to JahJah

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