Caribbean music Caribbean music Afro-American music is a broad array of musical genres that arose from the synthesis of African, European and Native American music. Afro-Caribbean music is a subset of Afro-American music, as is African American music. Most generally, Afro-American music and related terms are applied to those genres that arose from the meeting of cultures during the era of colonialism, when vast numbers of African slaves mingled with European colonizers and native peoples, as well as genres of popular music that came from these roots. ...more on Wikipedia about "Afro-American music"
Big Drum is a genre and a musical instrument from the Windward Islands. It is a kind of Caribbean music, associated mostly closely with the music of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Carriacou in Grenada and in the music of Saint Kitts and Nevis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Big Drum"
The music of the Caribbean is a diverse grouping of musical genres. They are each syntheses of African, European, Indian and native influences. Some of the styles to gain wide popularity outside of the Caribbean include reggae, zouk, salsa and calypso. ...more on Wikipedia about "Caribbean music"
Juan Luis Guerra (born June 7, 1957 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican singer and songwriter best known for popularizing merengue and bachata styles of music internationally. ...more on Wikipedia about "Juan Luis Guerra"
The Surinamese, Guianan and French Guianan escaped slaves managed to hide in the dense jungles of the area, and formed communities like the Aluku, Saramaka and Ndjuka. Their traditional sung stories are called mato, and there is also a kind of popular Maroon music called aleke. Traditional dances include awasa, a women's social dance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maroon music"
Bermuda is a Caribbean island and an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. Its musical output includes pop singers Heather Nova and Eddie DeMello, as well as an array of bagpipe music played by descendents of Irish and Scottish settlers; the biggest bagpipe band on modern Bermuda is the Bermuda Islands Pipe Band. Bermuda is also the home of one of most popular Caribbean music groups in the United States, the Bermuda Strollers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Music of Bermuda"
French Guiana is a part of France and is in South America. Surinamese music, especially kaseko, is very popular in French Guiana. ...more on Wikipedia about "Music of French Guiana"
The Cayman Islands are a Caribbean island chain, currently a territory of the United Kingdom. Musically there are an array of pop singers that cater to tourists, while the natives enjoy a selection of international pop music and their own folk styles. The Cayman National Cultural Foundation, established in 1984, helps to preserve and promote Cayman folk music, including by organizing festivals like Cayman Islands International Storytelling Festival, the Cayman JazzFest and Cayfest. The fiddle is a popular folk instrument. ...more on Wikipedia about "Music of the Cayman Islands"
Ripsaw is accompanied by an array of instruments, including maracas, triangles, box guitar, conga drums, goat and cowskin drums, accordion, concertina and, most prominently and uniquely, the carpenter saw. The saw is scraped with a metal object, such as a screwdriver, to produce a unique sound; this is called ripping the saw ** . ...more on Wikipedia about "Music of Turks and Caicos Islands"
Ripsaw is a musical genre which originated in the Turk & Caicos Islands, specifically in the Middle and North Caicos. A very closely related variant, rake-and-scrape, is played in the Bahamas. Its most distinctive characteristic is the use of the common handsaw as the primary instrument, along with various kinds of drums, box guitar, concertina, triangle and accordion. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ripsaw music"
His Birth name Maximo Antonio del Rosario. This great Dominican artist was born the 3rd of November of 1955, in the Dominican Republic in Higuey, in the eastern part of Dominican Republic.Su inclination to music began from very young. When they were young used to play music with instruments created by them, since they did not count on the resources to buy real instruments. These boys used plastic caps of glass bottle, empty tin cans (they used it like drums) and sirens. They used to sing in the houses of the neighbors and thus went as they were inspired to be what they are nowadays the Los Hermanos Rosarios. The grouping began with Pepe, Toño and Rafa like singers of the orchestra and the other Luis, Tony and Francis like members of the group. After the death of Pepe Rosary, Rafa and Toño they took the leadership of the group being Toño the main singer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tono Rosario"
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