Calypso strong ties to the traditional carnival celebration also provide a strong source of continuity for the musical genre along with folk song and African and Indian based classical forms, cross –cultural has so much closeness with calypso music calypso drew upon African and French influences and became the voice of the people. ... An interview in April 2014 with Neville hinds which is a soca band player he "never played so much soca music before in his life he said "when the band was brought to Trinidad it taught him the true beat of soca and the rhythm of the sound this is...

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