The Usa Has More People

Pop Culture Has None Of The Vibrancy That You Find In The Folk Culture, Where People Speak Directly To Their Own Experience In The Human Condition.

When I Went To Japan I Sang In Japanese; When I Went To Greece I Sang In Greek. When I Went To Spain, I Sang In Spanish. I Couldn't Speak It Very Well, But I Sang, I Was Beautiful In Singing It. These Things Just Constantly Attracted People To The Uniqueness Of Who I Was And The Way In Which I Performed.

The Sham Engineers Of The Music Industry, Who Steer The Wheels Of Public Opinion, Are Driving The Good Features Of Calypso Into The Ground. I Shudder To Think What These Greedy Men Will Eventually Do To This True Art Form.

I Delighted In The Music Of Africa, The Earliest Of The Slave Plantation Songs, The Transformation Into Christianity And All That Christianity Brought To The Lives Of The Africans Who Were Forced To Come To America.

Turning Against The Church I Also Had To Turn Against A Lot Of The Teachings Of People In My Family Who Were Very Much Of The Church And Caught In It, And Every Time I Turned To Find Where Resides The Good In The Church, All I Saw Was The Demonic, The Lucifer Of The Journey.