We're not talking about the jam, though Chutney does jam. It's a kind of music from Trinidad and Tobago that blends Indian folk, brought to the island nation by indentured Indians in the 19th century, ...

WHAT do you get when you combine Caribbean Hindustani and English, and add layers of the harmonium, dholak, synthesiser, tassa and electric guitar to the mix? Chutney music, of course. As language, ...

WHEN Jason Sookram first launched www.chutneymusic.com in 2018, he wanted it to be a pre-eminent resource for the chutney music artform and its artistes. Misson accomplished. The website not only ...

Bollywood and my mother's bhajans were the background music of my childhood. Growing up in New Jersey in the 1980s, any and all yearning for lost homelands was set to the score of Love Story, Dostana, ...

The first Indians landed in Trinidad (sold to desperate Bhojpuris as “Chini-dad”) as sugar slaves (euphemistically known as ‘indentured workers) in 1848. In the more than 150 years since, the East ...

A musical stew made up of the deeply flavorful ingredients of the wildly different styles of Soca and Chutney music, which incorporates Hindi lyrics and Indian instruments most typically the dholak, ...

I was amused after reading a letter by Desmond Saul stating that, “Songs can be written in English with the Indian Beat” (08.01.08). His premise is that the majority of Guya-nese do not understand ...

At 17, Riaz Bacchus was DJing on pirate radio stations in London when he stumbled on a genre of music that seemed to perfectly express his heritage. “It was Bollywood and soca mashed together – both ...

Ashok Ramchunder was also a popular bhajan singer, frequently singing at several temple functions in different towns across South Africa. Johannesburg: Legendary Indian-origin singer Ashok Ramchunder, ...

At first, it appeared to be Bollywood, but gradually it moved to a folk form and then incorporated some elements of a Spanish lambada. The beats were fast, the moves were catchy, and the expression ...