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tv   Najet Werda Island Kitchen  Al Jazeera  July 17, 2018 12:32pm-1:01pm +03

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and that's where it is that it is resonating and has resonated so we got several tweets about people's appreciation for the music and of course also for the history of how it came to be this is true now who's picking up on that idea uniting groups of people she says i think sopa is the dance hall of calypso i believe was created to be a band-aid to the knife wound of racial tension and racism it is usually sufficient for the duration of the songs or season but that's about as effective as it gets so you know she seems to like the idea of it healing racial tensions she says it's a certain part of the year that that happens would you push back against that would you agree i definitely do agree because i believe that we always like to have the idea of being united and we definitely are our own carnival time we have this festival mention the caribbean called carnival it started in. and that's really where people feel because so called drives carnivals is what makes carnival
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carnival and that point in time it doesn't matter who you were you could be a vagrant on the street somebody is going to love you somebody is going to make you feel you i mean because we just loving each other that that's a special time of the year and it's sad but so shines about point in time and then as years go by it days and saw does the love you know so does the appreciation for one another and that unity attitude it was a we you know i want to show a picture of you with your granddad or shorty here i'm not sure who looks more surprised you or your granddad i probably was just finished crying. to you so much so that you put him on the top of one of your videos what did you do that because because of the history of the music. i would always. see it's very
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sad but i think i live in a society where we have a measure people forget people don't like to give respect will specters you and the he has worked so hard and fought so hard to create something and yes people know that he was you want to started but they don't always give him the credit and i feel like i wanted to remind them where it all comes from because i mean we have so much culture coming out of trance big go i mean we have carnival we have this stupendous on national instrument it was created right there in chile and to be good this tiny twin island this time these twin islands right off of venezuela the end of the current to your humble drive over here i mean. we have calypso calypso was created right and in trinidad we have soca music and we're not taught these things in school we're not we're not taught our culture enough and i wanted people to know i think that there's not a lot of young people in so community sick i saw young people don't.
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connect as much will i i thought so because when i was younger i didn't connect as much because there wasn't anybody my age doing it and doing it big and well saw i felt like how the younger ones going to know all about the history of what we have so i thought it was so important for them to know their culture know their history and know like you know what i mean so that's why i felt the need to show them what exactly sorcha meant because people here so community and it's like all of us party does have a good time but it's more the more it which is why you put your granddad on the top of one of your yeah yeah i can tell it's an old v.h.s. tape or a little tape yeah let's have a listen to what will shorty how you describe so comedic. so it is a combination of east indian and african rhythm that put us in in the seventy's i modified because i would anywhere on sixty nine to seventy with the pull of us was
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to bring the east indian and the africans internet together so there was a combination of it to mean rhythm ixtoc as internet data to to create a song that would would be totally trinidad and then just call it a sort of speed. so that was low shortie really could he have it's because of lord shore leave his relation to you of course is your grandfather that we got to expect this from alan carr who says she is so royalty she should be regarded her family like the marlies in jamaica are recognized for their national cultural contribution but he goes on to say something that you mentioned earlier about being a young voice he says i love so black man is a critical voice of a cast of young voices who now traditional clips of expressions and current global music trends with a global caribbean acetic further as a female she's in a lane of her own. so it's a weighty thing but do you see yourself as that young boys who is mixing those two
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things where no one else's i definitely think so because i think that the problem with the youth it's a problem but it's actually not a problem at the same time is that we are looking for examples and the examples that we have. it's not necessarily we don't know how to recreate it we don't know how to make a brand new again we don't know how to make it trendy like what is happening now and it's like we hear the same thing over and over i was just tired of that i love so community and i'm just like why can't i hear something different why why does it sound like the same all song again you know still i felt the need to do that and i think that now that's inspiring more young people to have their voice and understand that my voice doesn't need to be just like the voices before it can be completely different i can still get true as we see it a true. that is the perfect transition for us because you say you are not the same
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old sound my love is going to play a song for us that really brought you into the spotlight it's a twenty seventeen collaboration with musician casts called put out while my love appears for her acoustic version of the hit have a listen to this video comment from richard ram sunder was a sober analyst and a blogger. and diversity within the music and the way it's been embraced across the islands and the world i'm always amazed to see how different islands and different types of people from all over the world create their own type of sound what soca music for example here in st lucia could do or daenerys segments and diana they have their own type of same thing in barbados they have music just for crop has music just for spice among us and st vincent they have their own unique sound for vincent mouse and although in japan japanese so guarded make their own so good music with japanese lyrics for their carnival as well so it's incredible to see the amount of diversity that comes from music.
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done wrong. and you know we. multiply by a thousand clapping you know what is there right now by the way and that is night of black people online know a lot of you tube and tweets coming in so i'm all cars says milo black when it will be remembered for having a good tar singing live performing in local cafes and bars to create room to define her voice presence and individuality no cakewalk she earned her keep enough respect someone else watching live on youtube writes in
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a question for you because she feel that women and so if a certain obstacles that her male counterparts don't. technically think so. so is a meal dominated industry i'm actually the first woman in. i could say that a decade tenure is to break true for the insecure and it's because it's so hard the things that women have to go through because all culture where come of all this comes and. music in general it's very over sexualized. and women feel the pressure to have to do that to get somewhere and it's not fair and a lot of a lot of men take advantage of lads and a lot of women are not strong enough to deal with that and some are we definitely have a means and women doing it right now. but it's very unfortunate that we would have
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to go through something like that but a lot of groups have to do with just fight to play their music more to do things and in exchange to get publicity and it's not fair but it's how women are treated in this industry one of the women who is out there doing it is your mom your entire family and. you kind of. how do you resist it i only show a little bit of black men this is nihilism mom. what. would. you. do with so-called stroll in there oh my goodness what
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a powerful role model to your mommy's doing that but in the way that you put your music videos together you the lyrics are very powerful but also the visuals are very powerful. i'm trying to think of how i say you are smart hot and sexy but you . don't play me about the way women are seen in so here but you are also incredibly sensuous in the way that you present yourself is that not a is that an irony in not or what are you trying to do the thing about it is that i am not sure that we as i've always been but a lot of woman on not and they feel the need to be that way this gives you an idea of what your usual videos yet like and the only thing in here or lotto it's an expression that we see in the caribbean it's like call us like oh my love you know
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it's just us like a sigh of relief you know i mean all our voyage. so question here keeping that in mind this is from sucky i was really excited we're doing the show here says what does she have to say to the critics who disapprove of her style in soap music. what do i have to see it to the critics that disapprove of my cell and so community. where you know i really don't pay attention to the negativity because there's so much positivity coming at me i mean i'm here today. so i don't peer tensions are but i think that a lot of people are not comfortable it makes some very uncomfortable change they're not comfortable with change because it's not traditional and it's not the way it's been done before they feel uncomfortable and it makes them you know we would see things so wanted to be the same we are and this is this is the sort of fight that my grandfather got when he had created sort of music because what was known or was
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done was collapse or and that was social commentary and it was it was a lot slower and it wasn't it wasn't like socal saw calypso was very different and people shunned him for trying to change it and he got a lot of bashed for it but then how much of a years later it's like the biggest thing i ever saw i watch that and i watch a lot of people that go through similar situations in the world and i see that. if you would have no hitters popping. up. and now it's. one of the things about where you come from trinidad and tobago is that we see it as like here it's beautiful it's stunning people enjoy carnival but when you take the music form a soca and you talk about some very serious issues and that is a challenge for
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a lot of because it's so happy the music sallies and you want to dance to it and then you hit them with big boned black grow. so only yourself of your own and own your blackness and how do you make that work for people how does that resonate with people i think it's really. well because not just in the cabin i mean all over the world i feel like our system is a problem and. our. discrimination in general is a problem and there's this idea of beauty and if girls don't fit in that then they feel insecure. and this is a lot of winning on your shoulder and i wanted to tell girls it is a matter how you look you should.

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