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This blog is dedicated to the music of Barbados. Feel free to send requests.

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Fadda Fox - Ducking (Official Music Video) “2015 Soca”

 "If yuh see me ducking"….

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Square One- Aye Aye Aye

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Krosfyah- Pump Me Up

Cropover 1994

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Natahlee & Shontelle - Colours 

Party Monarch Winners 2005

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Rupee- I am a Bajan 

2011 Cropover

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Alison Hinds- Born Wit It

2013 Cropover

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Lil Rick- Behave Pun It 

2013 Cropover

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Lil Rick- Wine Um Down

2013 Cropover

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2013 Sweet Soca Winner- Blood  

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2013 Party Monarch Winners- Soca Cartel (Blood and Mikey)

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The Mighty Gabby- Hit It

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Barbadian Calypsonian Anthony Carter a.k.a. "Mighty Gabby" sings the song he's best known for - Emmerton. The song, from his album "Til Now" is a dirge for the village of his birth.  Emmerton, considered at the time to be one of Barbados's worst slums, was adjacent to the capital city, Bridgetown. In the 1970s the government decided to raze the settlement and use the land to build a waste water treatment facility. Most of the nearly 600 residents of the area did not want to leave, but resistance to the government's resettlement plans eventually failed. This is how the Mighty Gabby explains the origins of his powerful dirge: "It was a place where neighbours were each other's lookout. In 1978, when I found out that we had to move, I was very hurt. People's houses were torn down and it was very heartbreaking to see the destruction of that community. They also destroyed the environment and ecology of the place. Emmerton meant everything to me. It was my homeland; it was the place I learned to swim. I had to remember it in song. The song took me just 35 minutes to write."

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The Mighty Gabby- Doctor Cassandra 

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The Mighty Gabby- Boots 

1983

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The Mighty Gabby- Arm De Police (Pow Pow)

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In plenty and in time of need When this fair land was young, Our brave forefathers sowed the seed From which our pride was sprung A pride that makes no wanton boast Of what it has withstood That binds our hearts from coast to coast The pride of nationhood

Chorus: We loyal sons and daughters all Do hereby make it known These fields and hills beyond recall Are now our very own We write our names on history's page With expectations great Strict guardians of our heritage Firm craftsmen of our fate

The Lord has been the people's guide For past three hundred years. With Him still on the people's side We have no doubts or fears. Upward and onward we shall go, Inspired, exulting, free, And greater will our nation grow In strength and unity.

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