We should not miss out on the significance of the phenomenon of renowned soca band Byron Lee and the Dragonaires playing at Passa Passa, as happened on Wednesday night...
News Source: Jamaica Star
The way for BL&D to play in West Kingston to a throng of dancehall mad fans has ben paved not by soca hits and the Carnival experience, but by Elephant Man, Tony Matterhorn, John Hype and other prominent players in what I call the 'dancehall nice again' movement.
For make no mistake about it; the co-ordinated dances, choreographed by a deejay, selector or dancer, as have dominated the dancehall over the past year or more, have sowed very good ground for soca to make a dancehall move.
In addition, the dancehall music which has dominated over the past year has been at such a fast tempo - whether that was how it was made or it is the speed at which it is performed at or played from the turntables - that it has laid the groundwork for the rapid soca beats to find fertile ground in the dancehall.
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