“The World Never Knew They Were Trini” — 12 Famous Songs Born In Trinidad, And The Village Of Each

🎶 THE WORLD SANG IT. YOUR FAMILY NAME CAME FROM HERE TOO 👉 https://theafricangenome.com 👈 The Surname Papers: the oldest page your family name is likely hiding on, the building that keeps it today, and the questions to ask your eldest relative while they can still answer. In 1990 a cartoon crab won an Oscar singing in a Jamaican accent. The rhythm under him was born somewhere else. A horror film. A number one hit in America. A dance at every wedding. A cartoon king who cannot stop moving. And the one sound the whole world uses to say "island". You have sung every one of them. Almost nobody told you where they came from, and some of them carry another person's name to this day. Two of these songwriters have no village in any record we could find. Maybe your family remembers. 👇 Tell us in the comments: the song your grandmother sang around the house that you later heard with somebody else's name on it, and her village. 🧬 Every family that gets The Surname Papers keeps this channel going and brings you more episodes like this one 👉 https://theafricangenome.com #Trinidad #TrinidadAndTobago #Trini #Calypso #Soca #Steelpan #CaribbeanHistory #CaribbeanMusic