New York–On November 27, Trinidad and Tobago's National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) welcomes the International Soca Awards (iSA). Reflect on calypso classics like Margie, Drunk and Disorderly, Tempo, Soca Baptist, Soucouyant, Hot Hot Hot, Bahia Girl and Fire in D Backseat. Only in the Caribbean could gems like these be created by natives. These are just a few?titles to some of the Road March hits, Calypso Monarch songs and party favourites of the 1970's?and 1980's.
Look again, it is The Lord Kitchener, the Mighty Sparrow, Calypso Rose, Blue Boy, no longer boy but Super, the one they call Crazy, Arrow, David Rudder, and Swallow. You put their lyrics together and you get the grand music of the two decades of sweet, sweet Calypso music being profiled.?The International Soca Awards (iSA) is honouring the music of the 70's and 80's and will take a step back in time in the most modern, grandest halls of the Caribbean–the National Academy of the Performing Arts (NAPA), right in the heart of the nation's capital, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
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The iSA is an award show produced by the Soca Awards Organisation on the premise that Soca music should be?highlighted, regarded as a rhythmic essence in inspiring, cultural form, and presented to the?world in a classical manner. The award show takes place annually, and this year, Trinidad and Tobago welcomes the ceremony.