WHEN Jason Sookram first launched www.chutneymusic.com in 2018, he wanted it to be a pre-eminent resource for the chutney music artform and its artistes. Misson accomplished. The website not only ...

WHAT do you get when you combine Caribbean Hindustani and English, and add layers of the harmonium, dholak, synthesiser, tassa and electric guitar to the mix? Chutney music, of course. As language, ...

“Do you know what it means: ‘Patthar mor kahī ahiyā lehanavā bhuī dole re?’” Trinidadian chutney star Rasika Dindial, better known as D’Rani, asked over the phone. She was quoting the infectious ...

Bollywood and my mother's bhajans were the background music of my childhood. Growing up in New Jersey in the 1980s, any and all yearning for lost homelands was set to the score of Love Story, Dostana, ...

(Trinidad Express) None of the 40 songs carded to perform at the Chutney Soca Monarch semi-final competition last night would have had lyrics glorifying either alcohol or domestic abuse, Southex chief ...

I was amused after reading a letter by Desmond Saul stating that, “Songs can be written in English with the Indian Beat” (08.01.08). His premise is that the majority of Guya-nese do not understand ...

Ashok Ramchunder was also a popular bhajan singer, frequently singing at several temple functions in different towns across South Africa. Legendary Indian-origin singer Ashok Ramchunder dies at age 67 ...