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	Caribbean Music 101 - Soca, Soul of Calypso, Origin, Lord Shorty - Father of Soca
		The name Lord Shorty is a paradoxical reference to his imposing height of 6-ft 4-in.
		Talk that calypso was dying, and reggae was the new thing, prompted Lord Shorty to experiment with the calypso rhythm for nearly a decade.
		Lord Shoty initially referred to his musical hybrid as "solka", representing the true "soul of calypso."; The "Indianization" of calypso brought together the musical traditions of Trinidad and Tobago's two major ethnic groups, the descendants of African slaves and of indentured laborers from India.
	caribplanet.homestead.com /101_Soca.html (1283 words)

	RAS SHORTY I, PIONEER OF SOCA MUSIC
		Ras Shorty I who was born Garfield Blackman in Trinidad started singing calypso as the LORD SHORTY as early as 1963 with his tune "Cloak and Dagger" in Trinidad.
		Shorty had collaborated with Dominica's 1969 Calypso King, Lord Tokyo and two calypso lyricists, Chris Seraphine and Pat Aaron in the early 1970's on a visit to Dominica.
		Shorty described it as "SOHKA" according to King Wellington's son Vernon Quashie (he reportedly feels that his Dad was better than Shorty).
	www.angelfire.com /ny/Playmas/shorty.html (600 words)

	RAS SHORTY : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		(b Garfield Blackman, 6 Oct. '41, Trinidad; previously known as Lord Shorty) Soca artist, composer; widely credited as principal architect of soca, defining it as: 'not a combination of soul and calypso, but a combination of East Indian and African rhythms' to create a 'totally Trinidadian sound...
		He developed a sexual image as 'Shorty -- The Love Man', was charged with indecency for presentation of 'The Art Of Making Love' in Calypso Monarch final '73 (charge was dropped).
		Declared in press early in '89 Carnival season that he was praying for O. Blackman to return to his spiritual fold in Piparo after O. had become a heart-throb by performing the popular Carib beer jingle 'Move On' on TV and radio; during that season Shorty I performed new songs incl.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /encyclopaedia/r/R24.HTM (600 words)

	Guardian \| Ras Shorty I
		As the notoriously free- living "Lord Shorty", he was the classic Port of Spain "saga boy" in the 1960s and early 70s, taking part in what he later described as an "orgy of the flesh"; as the self-styled "Love Man", he had a prodigious appetite for women, drink and drugs.
		Shorty's most important mark was made with the 1974 album Endless Vibrations, which was the first to use the new soca rhythm.
		By 1977, however, Shorty had became disenchanted with the image he had created, and when Maestro, a close calypsonian friend and composer, was killed in a car crash, he underwent a dramatic change of direction, swapping his fancy clothes for togas and sandals, and retreating to the forest.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4040617-103684,00.html (0 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Music of Trinidad and Tobago
		Soca is said to have been invented in 1963 (see 1963 in music) by Lord Shorty's "Clock and Dagger".
		Shorty added Indian instruments, including the dholak, tabla and dhantal and soon rivaled reggae as the most popular form of Caribbean music.
		Shorty's 1974 Endless Vibrations and Soul of Calypso brought soca to its peak of international fame.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Music_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago (0 words)

	Ras Shorty I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ras Shorty I (October 6, 1941-July 12, 2000) was a soca musician, known as the Father of Soca and The Love Man.
		Lord Shorty, as he was still known, released the first recorded soca in 1973, with his hit song "Indrani".
		Shorty's musicality was put to highly constructive use through Jamoo, making over several gospel songs and writing a number of songs with positive messages for all, especially young people and also pleading with modern soca artistes to preach positivity and the word of God through their music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ras_Shorty_I (0 words)

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		Lord Arthur was born to be a military commander, he declared proudly, but Brogan sensed the Doctor's fears were only intensified as he tended the Pimpernel's wounds.
		Lord Arthur Wellesley - the future Duke of Wellington, held prisoner on the island base Other League members Trouble and her kittens : Irish (the green one), Nero (the fl one), and Orion (the tabby one) - The Momma cat that Keegan brought on board the TARDIS and her kittens.
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	What Happened To Shorty?
		One day when Shorty was on a vacation financed by his gambling wins, he met a friend who started talking religion--about the Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible.
		Shorty knew that the Bible is the Word of God--at least, that's what he'd been told.
		Because Shorty had accepted Jesus not only as Savior from sin and its penalty, but as the Lord of his life, when God asked him to leave his business to prepare for the ministry, he sold his barbershop and enrolled in the Prairie Bible Institute.
	bible-christian.org /shorty.html (0 words)

	VIBE.com: Music Search
		The rhythms of calypso and the drone-heavy music of East India were combined to create the energetic musical hybrid, soca, by Trinidad-born vocalist Lord Shorty (born Garfield Blackman).
		Focusing on calypso in the early-'70s, Lord Shorty experimented with altering the rhythm until "introducing" soca with his hit song, "Ïndrani," in 1973.
		Lord Shorty initially referred to the rhythm as "solka," later explaining, "the 'so' comes from calypso and the 'Kah'" to show the East Indian thing in the rhythm.
	www.vibe.com /music/search/artist.html?id=UCAgICAgMzQzNg== (324 words)

	Toronto-Lime.com
		However, Soca, not the American soul and calypso,according to RAS SHORTY, is the depth and life of calypso,a bridging of the two major ethnic groups of T&T--the African and the East Indian.
		Shorty became deeply religious and retreated to the back hills of Trinidad where he settled with his wife Claudette and children whom he called "The Love Circle".
		Sadly, Shorty passed away on July 12, 2000 at the age of 59.
	www.toronto-lime.com /music/profiles/shorty.htm (443 words)

	ruthholladay.com - My date with Lord Shorty
		My Lord Shorty is full of s---, but then he is 16 months old and, according to his mother and the growth charts, "a midget."
		-- so I think Lord Shorty is a cute nickname for this stage of life.
		Plus, he really is "lord of all he surveys," especially his grandma.
	ruthholladay.com /index.php?blog=1&title=my_date_with_lord_shorty&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 (205 words)

	Ras Shorty I Page in Fuller Up, The Dead Musician Directory
		Lord Shorty would soon undergo a transformation himself.
		Although his early soca recordings utilized instruments, including the dholak, the dhantal and the mandolin, associated with East Indian music, Lord Shorty went towards a more standard instrumentation, including drums and guitar, beginning with his 1975 album, Endless Vibration.
		Converting to Rastafarianism in 1981, Lord Shorty changed his stage name to Ras Shorty I. He continued to explore new musical ground with Love Circle, a band featuring thirteen of his children.
	elvispelvis.com /rasshorty.htm (702 words)

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		Daniell sparked off debate when he mentioned that Ras Shorty I, who was known as Lord Shorty before his spiritual conversion, was not thinking of North American Soul music when he was in the process of developing what became to be known as soca.
		Shorty's widow, Claudette Blackman who was present disagreed with Wellington, commenting that for Shorty, the music was always about spirituality and not making a compromise with American music.
		As Daniell explained, Shorty was in his hotel room and had decided he did not deserve to live because of the lifestyle he led.
	www.trinidadexpress.com /index.pl/article_mix_mag?id=42658756 (0 words)

	Shorty - Gone Gone Gone
		Shorty laments the local preference for foreign music at the time of the recording (circa 1972) and ironically, he too dabbles in it on the same album.
		Shorty the innovator is inimitable in Bajan Girl, Soul Calypso Music, The Art Of Making Love, and Indrani which is plunked in the middle of Medley.
		Perhaps Shorty, and others, are overly pessimistic about how embedded is their local music in the local psyche.
	www.ecaroh.com /soca/shorty_gonegonegone.htm (0 words)

	GARFIELD BLACKMAN
		"Shorty was a light-heavyweight and he went into this fight with Grant around 1964, but he was no match for Grant, who was very experienced, and so he lost his very first fight.
		Christopher said Shorty acted in a number of plays, including Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar', as well as 'Ti Jean and his Brothers', 'Billy the Kid', 'Vique and the Boss' and 'The Harrowing of Benjie', in which Shorty played the lead role of the Baptist preacher.
		Christopher remembers a particular incident in which he and Shorty were sitting on the junction in Lengua singing a number of Sparrow's calypsoes…during the Lenten season.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /Biography/bio-RasShortyI-Tributes.htm (0 words)

	www.triniscene.com :: Bacchanal Factory - Your guide to Carnival 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Performing under the name Lord Shorty, he rose to fame in 1963 with his recording of Cloak and Dagger.
		It was talk that calypso music was dying, and reggae was the new thing that prompted Lord Shorty to experiment with the calypso rhythm for nearly a decade.
		Lord Shorty initially referred to his musical hybrid as “solka”, representing the true “soul of calypso”.
	forum.triniscene.com /bachannal/news.php?p=26&more=1 (0 words)

	The Kaiso Newsletter No 38
		He first appeared as a calypsonian under the name Lord Shorty in 1961 at the Victoria County Fair at Prince Town.
		He issued several of his classic albums and singles on Shorty Records which issued his recordings and those of his talented daughter Abbi Blackman as well as singer Ella Andell.
		While the influence of Indian music was definitely part of the mix, it was African American soul in the mix that joined with calypso made soca or Soul Calypso Music as Shorty titled another song on this album.
	www.mustrad.org.uk /articles/kaiso38.htm (1461 words)

	Soca Music History
		Lord Shoty initially referred to his musical hybrid as "solka", representing the true "soul of calypso." The "Indianization" of calypso brought together the musical traditions of Trinidad and Tobago's two major ethnic groups, the descendants of African slaves and of indentured laborers from India.
		The name was later changed to "soca" by a music journalist.
		By the turn of the 1980s, "the father of soca" had become disenchanted with music he had created, saying that soca was being used to "celebrate the female bottom, rather than uplift the spirits of the people." Lord Kitchener's classic hit
	www.artdrum.com /ESSAY_SOCA_MUSIC_HISTORY.htm (656 words)

	LORD TOKYO
		Although SOCA became first popular in Trinidad, it was a song lyrically composed by Lord Tokyo in creole patois called "e-petit" or "ou di moin e-petit Shorty" for the late Lord Shorty "Ras Shorty I" in 1973 that really started the popular beat.
		So the music that may have originated from Trinidad and Tobago, pioneered by RAS SHORTY I in the early 1970's really had its roots in Dominica.
		Shorty later described it as initially a mix of Calypso and Indian rhythms that blended with creole music.
	www.geocities.com /sensaydominica/lordtokyo.html (168 words)

	socanews.com :: Artists :: R :: Ras Shorty I (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Few life conversions have been more spectacular than that of the Trinidadian calypsonian and father of soca music, Ras Shorty I, who died from bone cancer aged 58.
		As the notoriously free-living "Lord Shorty", he was the classic Port of Spain "saga boy" in the 1960s and early 70s, taking part in what he later described as an "orgy of the flesh"; as the self-styled "Love Man", he had a prodigious appetite for women, drink and drugs.
		Many of his lively and hugely popular compositions, such as Lesson In Love, were appropriately risqué and sex-orientated, and in 1973 he was charged with obscenity, a complaint only dropped after the intervention of the Trinidadian Prime Minister, Eric Williams.
	www.socanews.com /socapeople/artists/R/1299.shtml (0 words)

	Caribbean Beat: Archives
		Shorty had grown up in Lengua, a predominantly East Indian village, and felt that a new national music should, or could, incorporate Indian rhythms, a notion which didn’t prove as acceptable to the wider — and predominantly African-heritage — community of calypsonians and musicians.
		Shorty’s next significant release, 1979’s rather inaptly titled Soca Explosion, was the work of a changed man — one embittered, perhaps, by personal financial ruin, but also one applying the same acuity of vision that saw soca as the way forward.
		All blessed with striking good looks, grouped around the imposing white-robed figure of Shorty I, the Blackmans were also effortlessly stylish, in colourful flowing robes and head-ties designed by Avion Blackman under her Jamoo Designs clothing label.
	meppublishers.com /online/caribbean-beat/archive/index.php?id=cb70-1-42 (0 words)

	Column with Contents
		By the late 1930s, Calypsonians such as Lord Kitchener rose to prominence and dominated the Calypso scene until the late 1970s.
		Lord Kitchener continued to make memories until his death in 2001.
		Lord Shorty was prompted to experiment with calypso rhythm because of the fact that calypso music was dying.
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	The Politics of Labelling Popular Musics
		Ras Shorty I's song "Indrani" recorded in 1973 represents a key moment in the official launching on the market of the music he chose to call "sokah." The reaction to the song was, however, mixed in both communities.
		As Ras Shorty I explained, because the lyrics talked about an East Indian woman who, after drinking rum, would lure her man into the bedroom, the East Indians thought that he was desecrating their women and, by extension, their music as well.
		In Ras Shorty I's account, the new rhythms and arrangements of soca were picked up for the first time in late 1976 by another artist, the reputed calypsonian Maestro with the song "Savage." Many other artists then followed suit, but it was not until 1978 that soca as a label became firmly established.
	www.sibetrans.com /trans/trans3/guilbault.htm (0 words)

	Lexicon Port of Pan ABC
		Born as Garfield Blackman, introduced as Lord Shorty his new music creation "sokah" with the hit song Indrani.
		In the 80ies he converted to Rastafarianism and renamed himself to Ras Shorty I. Most people agree that is the father of Soca.
		Geboren als Garfield Blackman, hat später als Lord Shorty mit dem Lied Indrani seinen neuen Musikstil "sokah" vorgestellt.
	www.pan-jumbie.com /ABC/r.htm (1145 words)

	Lords Of Legend : Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (RPG)
		You will not be able to change races until the next game reset, so make your decision wisely.
		In Lords of Legend, you need to build an army and develop your settlement for improved soldiers and weapons.
		The amount of money you plunder is based on the number of attack turns you use in the battle, and on the wealth of your target.
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	Mister Six (Zombie foe)
		Shorty had the Zombie kill Robert, much to Mr.
		Fearing that Robert would go to the police, Shorty took control of the Simon Garth's zombie and had him kill Robert.
		In the ensuing chaos, Shorty was killed, and Robert presumably returned to true death without anyone to control him.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/mrsixzom.htm (0 words)

	ItwoFS : Laxmikant Pyarelal [Hindi]
		Lord Shorty (Real name, Garfield Blackman) rose to fame in 1963 with his recording of Clock and Dagger.
		Lord Shorty initially referred to his musical hybrid as "solka", representing the true "soul of calypso." The "Indianization" of calypso brought together the musical traditions of Trinidad and Tobago's two major ethnic groups, the descendants of African slaves and of indentured laborers from India.
		Around 1981, Lord Shorty converted to Rastafarianism, changed his name to Ras Shorty I, and moved into the Piparo forest in southern Trinidad.
	www.itwofs.com /hindi-lp.html (0 words)

	Caribbean Beat: Archives
		Aldwyn Roberts, Grandmaster Lord Kitchener, was one of the most innovative and accomplished calypsonians in the history of the art form.
		New times call for new music, said this seminal number by Lord Shorty, one of the coiners of the term “soca” for the sound that swept traditional calypso aside in the 1970s.
		In Shorty’s original conception, the word was “sokah”, the “kah” signifiying an East Indian input, but Endless Vibrations is a pure demonstration of soca as an amalgamation of soul and calypso, complete with heavy horn lines and James Brown squeals.
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