Editing Soca music (section)

===Lord Shorty===
The "father" of soca was a Trinidadian named Garfield Blackman, who rose to fame as [[Lord Shorty]]<ref name=":0" /> with his 1964 hit "Cloak and Dagger".<ref>{{Citation|last=shawn randoo|title=Lord Shorty Cloak And Dagger|date=2017-07-23|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU5BxwFVaN4|access-date=2018-11-23}}</ref> He adopted the name "Ras Shorty I" in the early 1980s.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Mason |first=Peter |date=2000-07-14 |title=Ras Shorty I |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jul/15/guardianobituaries2 |access-date=2024-12-18 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> He started out writing songs and performing in the calypso genre.<ref name=":1" /> A prolific musician, composer and innovator, Shorty experimented with fusing [[Calypso music|calypso]] and elements of [[Indo-Caribbean music]] after 1965, before debuting "the Soul of Calypso" (or "soca") music in the early 1970s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Team |first=Tracks and Fields |date=2021-06-24 |title=Origin of Genres: Soca- Soul of Calypso |url=https://www.tracksandfields.com/blog/2021/06/24/soca-soul-of-calypso/ |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=Tracks & Fields news |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Mason |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e13fDWVHxZwC&dq=soca+soul+of+calypso+1970s+shorty&pg=PA29 |title=Bacchanal!: The Carnival Culture of Trinidad |date=1998 |publisher=Temple University Press |isbn=978-1-56639-663-9 |language=en}}</ref>

Shorty was the first to define his music as "soca"<ref>Citation error. See inline comment how to fix. {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/870303070 by a bug in VisualEditor and later identified by a bot. The original cite can be found around Special:Permalink/870291642 (or in a rev close to it) as cite #4 - find and verify the cite and replace this template with it (2). [[User:GreenC bot/Job 18]]}}</ref> during 1975 when his hit song "Endless Vibrations" caused musical waves on radio stations and at parties and clubs - not just in his native Trinidad and Tobago, but also in cities like New York, Toronto and London. Soca was originally spelled "sokah", with the "kah" part being the first letter in the [[Sanskrit]] alphabet, and representing the power of movement as well as the East Indian rhythmic influence that helped to inspire the new beat. Shorty stated in a number of interviews<ref>{{Citation|last=Norris Wilkins|title=RAS SHORTY I : "Watch Out My Children" 1941 – 2000|date=2016-01-10|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g9s7JHtVsg|access-date=2018-11-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301005000/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g9s7JHtVsg|archive-date=1 March 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> that the idea for the new soca beat originated with the fusion of calypso with East Indian rhythms that he used in his 1972 hit "Indrani". Soca solidified its position as the popular new beat adopted by most Trinidadian calypso musicians by the time Shorty recorded his crossover hit "Endless Vibrations" in 1974.

In 1975, Shorty recorded an album entitled ''Love in the Caribbean''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Lord-Shorty-And-Friends-Love-In-The-Caribbean/release/8409350|title=Lord Shorty And Friends* - Love in the Caribbean|website=Discogs|date=1975 |language=en|access-date=2018-11-23}}</ref> that contained a number of crossover soca tracks. During the subsequent promotional tour, Shorty stopped at the isle of Dominica and saw the top band there, Exile One, perform at the Fort Young Hotel. Shorty was inspired to compose and record a soca and cadence-lypso fusion track titled "E Pete" or "Ou Petit", which was the first in that particular soca style. Shorty consulted on the Creole lyrics he used in the chorus of his "E Pete" song with Dominica's 1969 Calypso King, [[Lord Tokyo]], and two Creole lyricists, Chris Seraphine and Pat Aaron.