{"id":611,"date":"2014-11-18T22:38:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T03:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gotourismguides.com\/trinidadandtobago\/?p=611"},"modified":"2016-07-10T12:02:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T16:02:05","slug":"chutney-soca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotourismguides.com\/trinidadandtobago\/chutney-soca\/","title":{"rendered":"Chutney Soca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chutney music<\/strong> is a combination of traditional Indian music, <a href=\"https:\/\/gotourismguides.com\/trinidadandtobago\/soca\/\" class=\"broken_link\">soca<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gotourismguides.com\/trinidadandtobago\/calypso\/\" class=\"broken_link\">calypso<\/a>, and it takes its name from the spicy Indian condiment of the same name. Chutney music sounds a great deal like soca, which is also influenced by Indian rhythms, but takes the sound a bit further, combining not only classical Indian sounds, but also the sounds of modern Indian films and Bollywood music.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3>Lyrics and Language<\/h3>\r\n<p>Chutney music is sung primarily in English, Hindi and Bojhpuri. The lyrics of Chutney were traditionally religious in nature, but nowadays take on many of the good-time (occasionally bawdy) lyrics that are common in all genres of modern Caribbean music, including soca and reggae. While Indian music is sometimes daunting to a casual or new listener, Chutney is fun, accessible and highly danceable party music. It&#8217;s popular in both India and in the East Indies, and in those ethnic communities in cities like Tampa, Miami and New York.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3>Chutney Soca in Trinidad &amp; Tobago<\/h3>\r\n<p>Trinidad and Tobago is the undisputed king of chutney soca, mainly because the island&#8217;s Indian population is nearly 50 percent of the population. Although chutney soca is mainly associated to Trinidad and Tobago, other Caribbean islands have also produced chutney-soca musicians who have achieved international acclaim: Guyana and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3>Chutney Soca during the Carnival<\/h3>\r\n<p>The world\u2019s largest chutney-soca competition takes place in Trinidad each year during <a href=\"https:\/\/gotourismguides.com\/trinidadandtobago\/category\/trinidad-carnival\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Carnival season<\/a>. Regardless of the artist\u2019s native country, the champion, or Chutney Soca Monarch, receives a substantial cash prize and has a captive audience for his or her hottest releases. Radio airplay and Carnival fetes or parties can boost both sales and a chutney-soca artist\u2019s name recognition.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Indian music is sometimes daunting to a casual or new listener, Chutney is fun, accessible and highly danceable party music.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-music"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chutney Soca - Trinidad and Tobago Travel Guide<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gotourismguides.com\/trinidadandtobago\/chutney-soca\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chutney Soca - 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