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The music of the Bahamas is associated primarily with Junkanoo, a celebration which occurs on Boxing Day and again on New Year's Day. Parades and other celebrations mark the ceremony. Groups like The Baha Men , Ronnie Butler ,Kirkland Bodie and Twindem have gained massive popularity in Japan, the United States and other places.
God Bless our Sunny Clime" is the national song of The Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Its music was composed by Timothy Gibson (composer and teacher) and E. Clement Bethel (composer, and Director of Culture of the Bahamas). The lyrics were written by the Rev. Philip Rahming, a Baptist minister and lecturer at the College of the Bahamas.
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They performed regularly in nightclubs and hotels in the Bahamas and self-released several albums. [ 2 ] In 1991, one of their tapes found its way to Atlantic Records A&R man Steve Greenberg , who signed the band to the Big Beat subsidiary, at the same time getting the band to change their name to the Baha Men.
Avvy – Inagua, Bahamas recording artist; Baha Men; Sebastian Bach – Canadian heavy metal singer, born in Freeport, Bahamas; Ronnie Butler; Exuma "King" Eric Gibson – (c. 1934 – 2013) calypso music; Blake Alphonso Higgs – goombay, calypso music; Johnny Kemp – Bahamian singer, later Harlem, New York City; Angelique Sabrina; Joseph Spence
Bahamian rhyming spiritual is a religious genre of music found in the Bahamas, and also the songs, usually spirituals, and vocal-style within that genre.Rhyming does not refer to rhyme but to verse, the rhymer, or lead-singer, singing the couplets of the verses against the sung background of the repeated chorus.
He performed in Bahamian local nights spots such as Ronnie's Rebel Room, the Rum Key, Big Bamboo, the Trade Winds Lounge, and Nassau Beach Hotel and has toured throughout Europe, South America and North America. Among his popular hits are songs "Burma Road", "Crow Calypso" and "Age Ain't Nothin' But A Number". [2]
In the Nassau Times, published on the 6th of April, 1878, an account titled, "Interesting Description of Life and Scenes in the Bahamas", mentions a band playing music for a couple recently married. He states: "we met the musical instruments going to this feast of love. They consisted in of a tom tom, a hollow log and a pipe".