The following is an address I delivered on Chutney Music at Yale University on Friday April 18, 2000. Chutney music, a syncretic Indo-Trinidadian popular music and dance idiom, is little known outside its own milieu. It is the product of the East Indian communities of Trinidad, Guyana and Suriname. Indians had originally immigrated to the…
Long ago, in traditional India society, women groups sang erotic songs at wedding and “sohars,” special songs at childbirth. These bhojpuri folk songs were lewd and suggestive and provided a way to hand down traditions and customs to later generations. Chutney music is a bhojpuri offspring. It was brought from the bhojpuri region in North…
An article, or rather, two articles in About.com, by Megan Romer has prompted me to clarify chutney music and soca. No offense to the writer, but I have read many articles that carry a misconception of what exactly is chutney music, and in this instance, the same goes for soca. Research usually clarifies such dubiousness.…
It did not begin with Nana and Nani as some believe. The song being neither chutney nor chutney soca, but a local composition with an appealing combination of Trini dialect and Hindi by the late singing legend Sundar Popo, about how indentured labourers spent their free time on the sugar cane estates. After a hard…
Chutney music is the signature Indo-Caribbean form of music, indigenous to the southern Caribbean, originating in Trinidad & Tobago but also extremely popular in Guyana and the rest of the Caribbean. It derives elements from traditional Bhojpuri folk songs, Soca and Indian filmi songs, and more recently from Reggae and Dancehall music. The music was…
Her name is Sangeeta Ramlal Harrypersad aka ‘D songstar.’ and she was born on 26th of March 1990. Sangeeta has a deep passion for bollwood and chutney music. Her musical journey started at a tender age singing at Mandirs, and Ramayan groups all over Trinidad.
Veejai Ramkissoon – Sanam Bewafa
Description Veekash Sahadeo does a bollywood remix cove of Pyaar Na Beeji which was Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Rishi Mahato at Maha Productions and Live Harmonium by Cappy.
Description A bollywood chutney remix of Ek Do Teen done by Drupatee Ramgoonai and Rome. The remix was produced by Kishore Wizzy Ramdath. Ek Do Teen was originally sung by Alka Yagnik in the movie Tezaab which was modernised in the 2018 movie, Baaghi 2.
Description Anil Singh Does A Bollywood Cover Of O Basanti, Originally Sung By Shailendra Singhin In The Movie Sun Sajna (1982). This Track Was Produced By Maha Studios.