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Various interviews with Entertainment Agents, Promoters, Carnival Organizers, Calypsonians to support this theme.
Image Credit: Modern Day Gillian
We are starting out the interview series with Mr. Angus Steele, Entertainment Agent and Owner/Manager of Spice Concoction
http://www.spiceconcoction.com/
BIGDRUMNATION: What brought you to this often- maligned business of calypso, soca, and carnival?
Angus: think it’s more about my love for music since I was growing up (learned to play drums with the Pitt brothers – Richard “Sabina” and Selwyn “Kung Fu”, looking on keenly at the years with Rodney “Doc” Rapier and Eddie Bullen and loving the Classical Guitar around the same time to today, played Steelpan early in GBSS, tried the piano and didn’t like it much, contracted artist under LIME in recent years in St. Vincent and thereafter in Grenada, setup my own Entertainment/Artist Management business in April 2014, worked on putting together formally The Carenage Rhythm Section – “Frontline Rhythm Section” early 2015), that saw me end up in my current situation and specifically those Genres since it’s the most common of skills locally. I may add that one of my Artist is into Urban Reggae music so I’m also diving deeper into that Genre as well despite little local talent as our “culture” mainly spins such music around Jamaicans.
Complete Interview attached: Download/ view full interview.
At this link are many of his artists’ releases for 2016 Spice Mass – Spice Concoction You Tube Channel
Interview with KennyC – Reggae/ soca recording artiste
KennyC Hails from Paradise St. Andrew, Grenada W.I. He is proud and happy to call Toronto, Ontario, Canada home but will always have a special place in his heart for his birth land Grenada.
This love of country has inspired him to compose SWEET GRENADA – the first single from his first album: Longtime Coming
BIGDRUMNATION: The music critics are showering you with high praises. Why do you think that they are so enamored of your performances?
KC: I’m grateful for the interest. I’ve been loving /singing and listening to music for most of my life but when I started singing professionally and seriously in the last several years, I wanted to bring to the people good lyrics that tell a story mixed with interesting beats and arrangements. I’m always asking my producers to give me something new and different, something people can feel. Sometime I would hum my rendition of where I would like to go with the tune to them. I also write all my songs – when I perform them the audience is getting and feeling a real piece of KennyC. I think its that mixture of melody, music, honesty and reality that’s connecting me to my fan base and music critics.
Complete Interview attached: Download/ view full interview.