The Man Who’s Been Taking Trinidad’s Carnival on the Road

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From the New York Times website:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/arts/music/machel-montano-soca-monarch-coming-to-madison-square-garden.html?_r=1

The Man Who’s Been Taking Trinidad’s Carnival on the Road
By JOHN ELIGON
Published: March 23, 2011

Machel Montano was a teenage calypso prodigy when he discovered something that would horrify any young person: He was so not cool.

He came to that unfortunate realization after his first performances at a popular nightclub in his native Trinidad and Tobago in the late 1980s. While the crowd was rapt by other acts that covered hip-hop, R&B and reggae songs, they dismissed his homegrown tunes as old people’s music.
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