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MyStory YourStory WeStory “Extended Version” Part 5

TT 101 Year TimeLine

1941: The arrival of US troops as a result of the Anglo-US bases Agreement changes the pop culture of T&T as these soldiers become T&T’s distribution outlet to the world and patrons of Calypso culture. Stokely Carmichael (aka Kwame Ture), inventor of the term ‘Black Power’ is born in Port-of-Spain. Inventor of Soca and Jamoo Ras Shorty I is born in Lengua Village, Princes Town. André Tanker father of T&T fusion music is born- his mother is a descendant of Cazabon, Trinidad’s first great painter.,…