Growing up in the 90's - early 00's in Trinidad, my surrounding neighbours would have MASSIVE speakers the size of your usual door way placed out on their front porches that would filled the village with whatever it was they would listen to at the time, Car's would drive past blaring music, I would even hear a mixture of music when I would go to school in a taxi or even if I walked past a Bar or shop, whether it be 70's - 90's love ballads, current RnB, Soca, Calypso, Hip - Hop or an Indian form of music locally known as "Chutney".
I see myself as very fortunate to have grown up in such a surrounding as it has given me insight to various music genre's and cultures but the music genre I naturally gravitated towards the most was Old school Dancehall & Dub.
