Gerald Rhaburn

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Gerald "Lord" Rhaburn is a Belizean calypso, soca, reggae and brukdown musician.^[1] He became famous when performing with the Lord Rhaburn Combo in the 1970s and 1980s.

Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and eventually spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century. Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 18th century.

Soca music is a genre of music that originated within a marginalized subculture in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s, and developed into a range of styles by the 1980s and later. Soca was initially developed by Lord Shorty in the early 1970s in an effort to revive traditional calypso, the popularity of which had been flagging amongst younger generations in Trinidad by the start of the 1970s due to the rise in popularity of reggae from Jamaica and soul and funk from USA. Soca is an offshoot of kaiso/calypso, with influences from Latin, cadence, funk and soul.

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Rhaburn has toured frequently abroad promoting Belizean music.

In 2004 he hosted the first Lord Rhaburn Music Awards, an annual Belizean music awards show.

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References

↑ Broughton, Simon; Ellingham, Mark; Trillo, Richard (2000). World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific. Rough Guides. p. 330. ISBN 978-1-85828-636-5 . Retrieved 13 May 2010.

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[BroughtonEllingham2000-1] Broughton, Simon; Ellingham, Mark; Trillo, Richard (2000). World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific. Rough Guides. p. 330. ISBN 978-1-85828-636-5 . Retrieved 13 May 2010.