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All-rounder
An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.
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Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of North America.
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Black Stalin
Leroy Calliste (born 24 September 1941), better known as Black Stalin, is a leading calypsonian from Trinidad and Tobago known for his militant Rastafarian and black nationalist lyrics.
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British Guiana
British Guiana was the name of the British colony, part of the British West Indies (Caribbean), on the northern coast of South America, now known as the independent nation of Guyana.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.
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Byron Lee
Byron Lee, OJ, CD,, Jamaica Gleaner, 27 October 2008.
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Byron Lee and the Dragonaires
Byron Lee and the Dragonaires (known as Byron Lee's Dragonaires after Lee's death and now The Dragonaires) are a Jamaican ska, calypso and soca band.
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Cadence-lypso
Cadence-lypso is a fusion of cadence rampa from Haiti and calypso from mainly the English speaking countries of the Caribbean.
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Calypso (album)
Calypso is the third studio album by recording artist Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor (LPM-1248) in 1956.
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Calypso Monarch
The Calypso Monarch (originally Calypso King) contest is one of the two major annual calypso competitions held in Trinidad as part of the annual carnival celebrations.
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Calypso music
Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and eventually spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century.
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Calypsonian
A calypsonian, originally known as a chantwell, is a musician, from the anglophone Caribbean, who sings songs of the calypso genre.
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Carnival Road March
The Carnival Road March is the musical composition played most often at the "judging points" along the parade route during Carnival.
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Chaconia Medal
The Chaconia Medal is the second highest state decoration of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Chutney music
Chutney music is a form indigenous to the southern Caribbean, popular in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, Jamaica, other parts of the Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius, and South Africa.
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Cook Records
Cook Records was a record label founded by Emory Cook (1913–2002), an audio engineer and inventor.
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Cooking banana
Cooking bananas are banana cultivars in the genus Musa whose fruits are generally used in cooking.
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).
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Crown Heights riot
The Crown Heights riot was a three-day racial riot that occurred from August 19 to August 21, 1991 in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York City.
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Diabetes mellitus
Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period.
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Dutch Top 40
The Dutch Top 40 (Nederlandse Top 40) is a weekly music chart compiled by Stichting Nederlandse Top 40.
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Eric Williams
The Rt Hon. Dr. Eric Eustace Williams TC, CH (25 September 1911 – 29 March 1981) served as the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Flame On
Flame On is an album released by popular Soca artist Machel Montano from Trinidad and Tobago in 2008.
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Garfield Sobers
Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers, AO, OCC (born 28 July 1936), also known as Gary or Garry Sobers, is a former cricketer who played for the West Indies between 1954 and 1974, and is widely considered to be cricket's greatest all-rounder.
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Gordon Rohlehr
Gordon Rohlehr (born 20 February 1942), Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, 22 September 2007.
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Gospel music
Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.
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Grand Roy
Grand Roy is a town in Grenada.
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Grenada
Grenada is a sovereign state in the southeastern Caribbean Sea consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain.
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Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and social activist.
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Hasely Crawford
Hasely Joachim Crawford TC (born 16 August 1950) is a former track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago.
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Ice Records
Ice Records is a record label based in Barbados owned by musician Eddy Grant.
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Inguinal hernia
An inguinal hernia is a protrusion of abdominal-cavity contents through the inguinal canal.
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.
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Jamaica, Queens
Jamaica is a middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.
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James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader.
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Jean and Dinah
"Jean and Dinah" (When The Yankees Gon) is a calypso from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean sung by calypsonian Mighty Sparrow that became an international hit in 1956.
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Knight
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a monarch, bishop or other political leader for service to the monarch or a Christian Church, especially in a military capacity.
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Lord Kitchener (calypsonian)
Aldwin Roberts (18 April 1922 – 11 February 2000), better known by the stage name Lord Kitchener (or "Kitch"), was an internationally known Trinidadian calypsonian.
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Lord Melody
Lord Melody (1926 – 26 September 1988)Thompson, Dave (2002) Reggae & Caribbean Music, backbeat Books,, p.154-155 was a popular calypsonian, best known for singles such as "Boo Boo Man", "Creature From The Black Lagoon", "Shame & Scandal", "Jonah and the Bake", "Juanita", and "Rastaman Be Careful".
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Machel Montano
Machel Montano (born 24 November 1975)Thompson, Dave (2002), Reggae & Caribbean Music, Backbeat Books,, pp.
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Maryland
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.
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Montreal Gazette
The Montreal Gazette, formerly titled The Gazette, is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, after three other daily English newspapers shut down at various times during the second half of the 20th century.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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New York Daily News
The New York Daily News, officially titled Daily News, is an American newspaper based in New York City.
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Obeah
Obeah (sometimes spelled Obi, Obeah, Obeya, or Obia) is a system of spiritual and healing practices developed among enslaved West Africans n the West Indies.
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Only a Fool Breaks His Own Heart
"Only a Fool Breaks His Own Heart" is a song that was composed in Brooklyn New York in 1964 by Norman Bergen and Shelly Coburn in response to a request by United Artists Music who was looking for songs for British duo Chad & Jeremy.
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Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.
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Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
The Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is the highest honour of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Pay-as-you-earn tax
A pay-as-you-earn tax (PAYE) or pay-as-you-go (in Australia) is a withholding tax on income payments to employees.
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People's National Movement
The People's National Movement (PNM) is the present-day governing political party in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Port of Spain
Port of Spain (also spelled Port-of-Spain) is the capital city of Trinidad and Tobago and the country's third-largest city, after Chaguanas and San Fernando.
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RCA
The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919.
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RCA Records
RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
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Reggae Sunsplash
Reggae Sunsplash is a reggae music festival first staged in 1978 in the northern part of Jamaica.
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Robert Christgau
Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.
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Smithsonian Folkways
Smithsonian Folkways is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Soca music
Soca music (also defined by Lord Shorty, its inventor, as the "Soul Of Calypso") is a genre of music that originated within a marginalized subculture in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s, and developed into a range of styles by the 1980s and later.
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Steelpan
Steelpans (also known as steel drums or pans, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steel band or orchestra) is a musical instrument originating from Trinidad and Tobago.
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The Jamaica Observer
Jamaica Observer Limited is a daily newspaper published in Kingston, Jamaica.
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Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Trinidad Express Newspapers
The Trinidad and Tobago Express (and the Sunday Express) is one of three daily newspapers in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Trinidadians
Trinidadians, colloquially known as Trinis, are the people who are identified with the country of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Trojan Records
Trojan Records is a British record label founded in 1968.
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University of the West Indies
The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 18 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands.
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Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks (born January 3, 1943) is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer who has composed various film and television soundtracks.
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Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
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Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros.
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West Indies
The West Indies or the Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.
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West Indies Federation
The West Indies Federation, also known as the West Indies, the Federation of the West Indies or the West Indian Federation, was a short-lived political union that existed from 3 January 1958 to 31 May 1962.
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