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The term chutney soca was first coined by Drupatee Ramgoonai of Trinidad and Tobago in 1987 in her first album entitled Chutney Soca, with a mix of Trinidadian English and Trinidadian Hindustani versions of the songs. The current style of spelling of the term was not established then and she spelt it as "Chatnee Soca".
Soca began its development in the early 1970s [11] [12] and grew in popularity throughout that decade. Soca's development as a musical genre included its fusion with calypso, kaiso, chutney, reggae, zouk, Latin, cadence, and traditional West African rhythms.
This has allowed chutney to fuse with other genres and/or to implement new instruments into its own style, creating an array of syncretic subgenres including ragga chutney, chutney-bhangra, chutney hip-hop, soca-bhangra, and chutney soca. Chutney soca is the most notable of these, as it has become virtually indistinguishable from what is ...
Drupatee Ramgoonai (pronounced [drʊpəti raːməɡʊɳaːjə]; born 2 March 1958) is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian chutney and chutney soca musician. She was responsible for coining the term "chutney soca" in 1987 with her first album, entitled Chutney Soca, which included both English and Hindustani versions of the songs.
Soca has evolved over time, incorporating numerous genres from reggae and rock to Afrobeats and EDM. As Kes says, it’s “very difficult to put music in one box.” As Kes says, it’s “very ...
Chutney has also developed into chutney-bhangra, chutney-hip-hop, soca-bhangra and bhangra-wine. [18] As chutney music's popularity grows, people are becoming more aware of the mixture of cultures present in Trinidad and Tobago. Many of the chutney artists that are known within West Indian culture are from Trinidad.
Although they specialize in Chutney music, The Supertones Band also records and performs a wide range of other genres, including soca, reggae, dancehall, Bollywood, and reggaeton. Their hit song, “Tek Sunita” by Princess Anisa was ranked among the top Chutney songs on music charts in Guyana, Canada, Trinidad, US, Suriname and the ...
It originally combined the melodic lilting sound of calypso with insistent percussion (which is often electronic in recent music) and local chutney music. Soca music has evolved in the last 20 years primarily by musicians from Trinidad, Grenada, Guyana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, some bands ...