Booster Shot: Happy Birthday Nadia Batson

Nadia Batson and Nurse Karen in Trinidad (February 2009)

It's a happy happy birthday today for Miss Nadia Batson!  With 3 hot new tunes blazing the Trinidad airwaves for carnival 2K10.  She is definitely alive and kicking :)

Sending a little b-day love of my own out to the talented vocalist who has been paying her dues for the last ten years, and always ready to give fans a little more than expected ever since she got her bligh.  Nads, wishing you a very special day, full of love, laughter and music!

As for the rest of us, here's Nadia's latest offering "Yuh Really Wanna" on the Lavway Riddim. I happen to love this riddim and the song on it! Has that high energy 1990's dancehall vibe. Makes me wanna take a ride in an overcrowded minibus...*sigh*

Yuh Really Wanna (2010 Trinidad)(Lavway Riddim) Http://www.myspace.com/nadiabatson - Nadia Batson

So, if you love the song, or you just love Nadia, pay her a visit online at www.twitter.com/nadieb and send her your greetings directly.  She's a down to earth sister girl, so I'm certain she will appreciate it!

Love and Soca,

Nurse Karen

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The Rounds: Naki is "Always On Time", etc

Originally aired on FLOW 93.5 FM's "Soca Therapy" with Dr. Jay de Soca Prince,on Sunday, December 6th, 2009. Tune in every Sundays from 6 to 9 pm.

In this edition:
- Rate Kes the Band for the Independent Music Awards (Trinidad and Tobago / USA)
- First TEMPEST CD is released! ( St. Lucia)
- Naki transitions to soca (Trinidad and Tobago / Canada)
- FREE Iphone / Ipod Touch Steel Drum App (England)
- Birthdays:  Nadia Batson (Trinidad and Tobago), Black Roots (St. Vincent and the Grenadines), Sedale (St. Lucia)
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Good Evening Soca Lovers,

I’m Nurse Karen and these are Dr. Jay’s Rounds. Trinidad’s Kes the Band is waiting with baited breath to find out if they will be the 2009 Winners in the World Beat Category of the Independent Music awards. A panel of industry professionals is in the process of choosing a winner right now, but the public can still play a part in helping them to possibly win Peoples’ Choice. They’re up against four other acts. Just surf over to Musicians Atlas dot com, and do your part to support soca.

A couple of St. Lucians who have been working tirelessly to support the development of music on their island, have just launched a brand new compilation CD showing off some of the hottest up and coming talent on the island in various genres including soca. Francis "Leebo" De Lima and Christopher Hunte  are behind a project called "The best of TEMPEST Volume One". Tempest is an acronym that stands for “Televised Event Marketing and Promoting Emerging Sound Talent”. The organization has promoted four live concerts in St. Lucia since 2006, and also participated in the internationally known , St. Lucia Jazz Festival.

On the home front, one of Toronto’s own female Calypsonians, Naki Tuitt has made the transition into singing soca for Trinidad Carnival 2k10. If you’re not sure where you’ve heard the name before, Naki was the 1995 Junior Calypso Monarch in South Trinidad. Years later she moved here to Toronto where she has been competing in the Caribana Calypso Monarch for the last three years. Now, she’s got a groovy soca tune out called "Always on Time", produced by Jimmy Nutron...the same guy who did "Ramajay" for Machel Montano. If you’d like to support your hometown girl. You can grab copies of A Caribbean Soul Christmas and A Mastamind Christmas 4, where you can hear her take on soul music and and soca parang too!

For all the Iphone and Ipod touch users out there, I found an app that you can use to play along with your favourite soca tunes. Carnival Village UK released a free download called “Carnival Steel Drum”, which...no lie...is and electronic tenor pan that you play with your finger tips. Just tap different parts of the screen, and you can rehearse for pan alive! Surf on into the itunes App Store and download it for FREE!

This weeks birthday greetings go out to Trinidad’s Nadia Batson on Monday. St. Vincent’s Black Roots and St. Lucia’s Sedale on Saturday! I’m Nurse Karen and those were Dr. Jay’s Rounds. For more up to date information on everything to do with soca, check me out online at triple w dot nurse dash Karen dot com, or follow me “Nurse Karen” on Twitter. Now back to de Docta!

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Booster Shot: Krosfyah announces 20th Anniversary plans

Ok this is just a quickie!  When Edwin Yearwood was in Toronto for Soca or Die last month, he informed the fans that his band back home (Krosfyah) would be celebrating a landmark anniversary at the end of the year.   Krosfyah is turning 20!  If that's no big deal to you.  Think about it.  What were YOU doing 20 years ago?  Were you even alive?  Did you have the same friends?  Interests? Clothes? LOL....probably not.

Some of the names and faces have changed, but the soca world can thank Krosfyah for 20 years of sweet music backing up the melodious voice of Edwin Yearwood.  Always quality music and an entertaining show....how's that for consistency?

Yesterday Krosfyah held a press conference in Barbados with the Prime Minister to announce the bands plans to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the noteworthy party band on December 31st, 2009.

I've been promised more info to keep you up to date.  So, stay tuned!

Love and Soca,

Nurse Karen

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Eye Unit: Kiprich - Tun You Roll

So...Remember Kiprich?  I do, and this one made my head spin round and go....errrrrrrrrrkks!  He's a Jamaican dancehall artist who is part of The Alliance.  He wrote the lyrics for Elephant Man's "Jook Gyal", but rose to popularity performing his own track, "Telephone Ting".

So...imagine my surprise finding this video.  Which is more like soca than dancehall...but also has influences of folk, country and even soca chutney.  Cuss me if I'm lying! Sounds like an identity crisis. LOL...but I admire experimentation, so more power.

Thought you might enjoy checking it out for yourself.

Enjoy...



Love and Soca,

Nurse Karen

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Booster Shot: Guardian article praises Nadie B as a Glamazon!

It seems like Nadia Batson has come of age.  I mean her career sillies, because she's a grown @$$ woman!  As the vocally muscular soca artist and entrepreneur prepares to celebrate her 33rd birthday in just a few days, it seems the local Trini media is taking notice of a talent that was overlooked for far too long. She discusses Carnival 2K10, her upcoming album "Miss B", and her new take on fashion.

Take a look and see just what I mean...



Source: Trinidad Guardian

Glamour’s the go for Nadia in 2010

ABA A. LUKE

Published: 3 Dec 2009

It took a long time for Nadia Batson to love
herself and her music. Now she truly does and
she is about to glam it up in 2010.

At the peak of her musical career, Nadia Batson feels glamorous. Her mood is reflected in the music she’s already produced for Carnival 2010—Keep Wining, Dangerous and Yuh Really Wanna—all tracks that have penetrated the airwaves here in T&T and abroad.

Batson says her career is about to go places beyond the expectations of even her fans.    To read the rest of the article....CLICK HERE

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