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Julia Edwards (1933 – 24 May 2017) was a Trinidadian dancer and choreographer. Known as the "Queen of Limbo" or "First Lady of Limbo", she was responsible for popularizing limbo dancing as a performance in the 1950s and early 1960s, and for inventing many of its variations.
Robert Greenidge (born 28 April 1950 in Success Village, Laventille, Trinidad) is a steelpan player. He is a member of popular music singer Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band and the instrumental group Club Trini.
Trinidad and Tobago, [a] officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean.Comprising the main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, along with numerous smaller islands, it is located 11 kilometres (6 nautical miles) northeast off the coast of Venezuela, 130 kilometres (70 nautical miles) south of Grenada, and west of Barbados.
The Little Carib Theatre (LCT) was established in Woodbrook, Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1947 by Beryl McBurnie (1913–2000) "to showcase the vibrant and rich culture of the Trinbagonian people". [1] The first permanent folk-dance company and theatre in Trinidad, it has been described as "the mecca of West Indian folk dance". [2]
Kitchener opened a nightclub in Manchester and also had a successful residency at The Sunset in London. [5] [11] Further US performances followed in the mid-1950s. [5] [11] In the 1950s, he also composed "Bebop Calypso". In 1962, he returned to Trinidad, where he and the Mighty Sparrow proceeded to dominate the calypso competitions of the 1960s ...
Levi Samuel García (born 20 November 1997) [2] is a Trinidadian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Russian Premier League club Spartak Moscow and the Trinidad and Tobago national team. García began his professional football career in 2013, at the age of 15, with T&TEC in his native Trinidad and Tobago.
The stadium was constructed for the 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship which was hosted by Trinidad and Tobago, and was named for eight-time Olympic and World Championship medal winner and 1997 200m World Champion, sprinter Ato Boldon. It hosted four of the six Group C matches.
Port of Spain, officially the City of Port of Spain (also stylized Port-of-Spain), is the capital city of Trinidad and Tobago.With a municipal population of 49,867 (2017), [2] an urban population of 81,142 and a transient daily population of 250,000, [5] it is Trinidad and Tobago's third largest municipality, after Chaguanas and San Fernando.