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His son, keshav, is a music producer. uncle charlie is in charge of the cooking. >> anthony: how far back does the family go? >> chan: this family has gone back to 1845. >> anthony: 1845, those were hard times. life was not good for the family in india. >> chan: there was poverty, there were wars and all sorts of things, and yes they came into really hard times here because the indians emigrated from india, replaced the liberated slaves and the conditions were not very different. >> keshav: diff...

Music writing songs at a time when there was only men. >> my father and mother was against it. my father was baptist minister. my father said calypso belongs to the devil. >> anthony: and also belongs to men. and here you are at 13 doing what was considered a completely revoluti revolutiony thing. what was it about you that made you strong enough and different enough and determined enough to choose to do such a difficult and unusual thing when everybody was against it? >> my fans. because some p...

Split pea broth, dumplings and of course corn. kim johnson is a local journalist and historian who knows about this stuff. its far more complex than you think. >> anthony: wow ive got to tell you that was incredible. i heard a lot of little steel drum bands around the caribbean but nothing like that. all percussion right? 100 percent. >> boogsie: yes. >> anthony: how did your interest in this develop? >> kim: i grew up here, later i became a writer. i discovered there were hundreds of stories. b...

>> lashaun: most probably, i mean you can lime without beer. >> anthony: what about the rum? i havent had any rum here. how does one drink rum here and which rum should i be drinking? does one drink on the rocks or mixed? >> lashaun: so one drinks it with coke. >> anthony: with coke?!? >> lashaun: yeah rum and coke. >> anthony: but the rum is supposed to be really, really good here. what do i want to mess it up with coke for? okay weve established what liming is whats whining? >> lashaun: the te...

Youve had this table cloth for too long so you know what im going to take this out on you, this is going to happen or thats going to happen" and thats what were seeing now. i mean how long can people put up with something before they decide this is enough. you know what i mean? >> anthony: would you say carnival and that carnival attitude, the liming culture, might as well be a brilliant strategy to narcotize the people into being satisfied with the status quo? >> muhammed: everything here is so...

>> muhammed: i would have to go back into my childhood to explain that. the coupe that happened here happened when i was six years old. they had all these young people in there who had this idea, you know, were they were going to build this thing. theres this community thats going to stand up to whats going on in trinidad, thats going to stand up against the drugs, and stand up against poverty and stand up against crime and nothing happened. >> anthony: in none of these causes religious fundamen...

I just got fascinated by tracking down all of these pioneers and getting their stories of how they got involved. >> boogsie: ill be 64 years this year. i playing music since i was a little kid. >> kim: yeah theres stories that he grew up with them in one of his backyard so when he was about three years old he was going out playing with them. >> anthony: boogsie composes his pieces layering different types of drums on top of each other. the engine room made of unpitched percussion, lays down the ...

Radical ideology to that and trinidad has proved relatively fertile ground for the recruitment of isis fighters and terrorist. >> mark: its quite alarming, trinidadian nationals being one of the highest in the region going to syria and there are over 100 on the list. a fbi list. they feel that its the calling from isis that they need to go. >> anthony: so whats the future look like what do you think? hows it going to go? >> mark: wow thats a loaded question. there are really good people here in ...

Myself. >> anthony: really? >> muhammed: yes, sir. >> anthony: red snapper? >> muhammed: yeah, yeah. >> anthony: the snapper is rubbed with lime juice, chadon beni and onion. >> anthony: whats this dish called, is there a name for it? >> muhammed: this is called oil down. >> anthony: oil down? >> muhammed: yeah. >> anthony: for oil down they season breadfruit and meat with dasheen and green figs and simmer in coconut milk. >> muhammed: and well she used pork as you can see, which now i cant have...

And the frontline pans play a melody. ♪ the result a symphonic wall of sound. >> boogsie: i would like someday to marriage this with a big orchestra, symphony orchestra. yeah anthony, thats my dream. >> kim: its because of the music africans survived slavery, but not just survived physically, survived psychically. its a question of just improvising instruments. ♪ ♪ ♪