Kerwin du bois biography books

  • Writer. Producer. Singer. Booking

    • Raw and unfiltered

    Features Janelle De Souza

    Soca artiste Kerwin Du Bois surprised many Trinis with the release of the song My Faults, not because the lyrics were particularly rude or vulgar, but because it contains obscenities. There is no word play or double entendre, just Du Bois asking, “I want to know what the f--k you want?”

    It may not be the first soca song with cursing but it is definitely the first with a mainstream song with good rotation on the nation’s radio stations, though censored for the airwaves.

    Members of the public have expressed concern that it will be the “downfall” of soca, some find it unnecessary, while others believe it is simply another way to express oneself.

    One listener, Duane Joel from Moruga said, “I don’t like it. Yes I listen to cursing in other music but this is soca. The children already bombarded with it everywhere. You could at least leave this one thing that they actually like and sing relatively clean.”

    In an e-mail interview with Sunday Newsday, Du Bois, the 2014 Groovy Soca Monarch, said he created music to represent himself and his experiences, and this is a way to allow people to know the real him as well as to express himself.

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    “Because, I am not always easily accessible sometimes people wonder and ponder about my personality, what I am like, what I think about, and what type of person I am. The truth is, I am raw and unfiltered. That’s who I am. Now, I cannot force anyone to agree with me but I do know that there are tons of people out there who just wish that they were able to express themselves without fear. I have never been one to conform, I've always done things differently and this is just an example of that.”

    He said he understands that some people will not appreciate the obscene language so he also produced a clean version. He hopes people understand that music is about self-expression and that everyone expresses themselves differently.

    However, he said it is hypocritical for the same

    Full Blown Entertainment

    Music production and songwriting company

    Musical artist

    Full Blown Entertainment (FBE) is a music production and songwriting company based in the Caribbean twin-island of Trinidad and Tobago. They are responsible for the songwriting or production of songs for a variety of artists, including Boyz II Men, Machel Montano, 2face Idibia, Kes The Band, and Kerwin Dubois.

    History

    Having no formal musical training, Kevon and Kory Hart were introduced to the process of composing music digitally in 2004 through a former schoolmate. In the years to follow, the duo wrote their songs in R&B, EDM and Soca music.

    It would be after approximately six years that, in 2011, the company forced its first door open. In one studio session while recording a song for a wedding, they were noticed by Kasey Phillips of Precision Productions. After the recording was done, Phillips approached the duo and inquired whether they would be willing to write Soca music for the upcoming Carnival celebrations. After initially turning down the offer, they accepted a compact disc with some instrumentals composed by Precision Productions. Coming out of this was the very first song they shopped: Machel Montano's "Vibes Cyah Done". Stemming from this, Machel requested a meeting with Full Blown.

    Songwriting and production careers

    2012: Career beginnings

    In 2012, two of their songs eventually placed 1st and 3rd in the International Groovy Soca Monarch Competition; Machel Montano's "Mr. Fete" and Benjai's People's "Champion" respectively. The Mr. Fete final performance was the brainchild of both Arvinder Rampersad and legendary artist and "mas-man" Peter Minshall. This would be Machel's very first Groovy Soca Monarch title.

    Machel Montano's Vibes Cyah Done and Mr. Fete songs were both released as singles under the umbrella of record company Universal Music, France.

    The Souls of Black Folk

    May 8, 2023
    an imperfect book, made perfect by its imperfections. perfection is cold; this is a warm book, hot at times. complex and flawed and all too human; anger and mourning and judgment doled out in equal measures. Du Bois' sad and often seething voice rings from the page. surprisingly lush and stylized prose across 14 essays, mood pieces, personal narratives, even a short story. all are complex. an experience both nourishing and scouring, and far from an easy read. but should it be? the book is America's dark night of the soul... a spiritual dryness, loneliness, existential doubts... a guide to the Black Belt, a history of a people kept low... but in the end, the wounded soul will still survive.


    PROGRESS NOTES
    (some adapted from posts in GR group The Readers Review)

    Chapter I: "Of Our Spiritual Strivings"
    - Du Bois' prose is dense and really beautiful. He has such a gift for poetic phrasing and metaphor. I was struck in particular with his description of "the tyrant and the idler... the Devil and the Deep Sea" and his "two figures ever stand to typify that day to coming ages" - the embittered old white man who has lost sons in the war and sees himself supplanted; the enslaved black woman, nurturer and caregiver and victim of constant abuse.
    - I loved the passage "there are today no truer exponents of the pure human spirit of the Declaration of Independence than the American Negroes" and another later that notes that the original American fairy tales and folklore are indigenous and African-American - I was reminded of Albert Murray's writings in his collection The Omni-Americans.

    Chapter II: "Of the Dawn of Freedom"
    - I was unfamiliar with Freedmen's Bank. reading about how its collapse put freedmen so far back - on top of the lie of "forty acres and a mule" - was startling, disturbing.

    Chapter III: "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others"
    - an extended critique of Booker T. Washington. I'm very sympathetic to Du Bois' pi
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