01Bouyon / SocaTriple Kay
Laudat, Dominica
Soca • South Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
Nailah Blackman
Songwriting, acoustic performance and soca collaborations.
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Behind the music
The story so far.
Nailah Blackman is a Trinidadian singer and songwriter whose work connects a musical family background with her own collaborations and performances. Her publisher identifies her as the daughter of musician Abbi Blackman and granddaughter of Ras Shorty I, and says she grew up in South Trinidad. Bocas Lit Fest’s biography describes her as a composer and multi-instrumentalist known for acoustic performances. It highlights Workout with Kes and Come Home with Skinny Fabulous, alongside her studio album Teknique and the Sokah Origins event she began in 2017. The listening selections below offer two different presentations: Workout on Kes’s official SoundCloud account and the Come Home video on Blackman’s official YouTube channel. The SoundCloud page dates its upload to December 2016, while the festival biography places Workout’s breakthrough in the 2017 season. Those details describe different milestones. Keeping the source upload, release edition and later performance context separate helps make sense of a song’s circulation across Carnival seasons.
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Beyond the listening picks
EXPLORE THE CATALOG.
Browse the release editions collected so far, with complete tracklists, dates and direct listening links. The catalog explains its source coverage and remaining gaps.
Browse the release catalogCredits, versions and context
BEHIND THE SONGS.
- Come Home — the Carnival story, production team and named mixes
Read Andre Jeffers’s explanation of Come Home, identify its audio and video contributors, and choose between the single, three named mixes and acoustic version.
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THE SOUND.
Two tracks to begin with. Listen on the original platform, then explore the rest of the catalog.
