Lord laro born
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Lordy Lord Laro!
Corn Plum Plum, Lord Laro, Jamaica, 1960
Kenneth Lara was born February 29, 1940, at Claxton Bay, Trinidad.
Without any formal training he became famous at age 12 in a talent show. He joined the calypso tent arena until he joined the Forces and became the ‘singing soldier’ in 1961.
Calypso was originally used by African slaves in the 1600’s in the West Indies to mock the slave masters and to communicate with each other. Calypso tents began in Trinidad in 1921.
While stationed in Jamaica, Lara fell in love his Jamaican wife, Norma; and his hit, Referendum, on the charts for 18 weeks, made it all the way to #4 on the Jamaican hit parade!
Performing at the Yellow Bird Club, he assumed the name Lord Laro, becoming the talk of Montego. In 1969, he required structure to formulate all the music in his head, he attended the University of the District of Columbia to study composing and arranging for two years. With formal training under his belt,
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The Music Diaries | Caribbean's contribution to Jamaican music
Last week's article on Lord Creator highlighted one of the notable features of early Jamaican popular music the impact that entertainers who were not born in Jamaica had on the development of the Island's music.
There are no fewer than a dozen other entertainers whose origin lies outside the island, but who made a lasting and ineffaceable mark on Jamaican music in its embryonic stage.
The list includes; saxophonists Tommy McCook and Rolando Alphonso, trombonist Rico Rodriguez, vocalists Laurel Aitken and Rita Marley all from Cuba; guitarist Lyn Taitt, vocalists Lord Brinner and Lord Laro from Trinidad; vocalist Jackie Opel from Barbados; trombonist/bandleader Carlos Malcolm and drummer Phil Callender from Panama; and guitarist Dennis Syndrey from Australia.
The role that McCook and Alphonso played was crucial to the success of the inimitable Skatalites band, and by extension the establishment of ska the
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