Eddy Grant
The ‘I Don’t wanna dance‘ hit-maker was born in Guyana in 1948. Grant went ahead to become a huge star, founding a band called the Equals, one of Britain’s racially inclusive bands and creating a platinum hit like ‘Electric Avenue’.
He also pioneered a music genre in 1994 called the ringbang, which is a combination of various Caribbean music. Of the genre, he said:
Ringbang is the thing that makes the soul quiet. That in a musical concept is rhythm. A child is given ringbang when a mother rocks it in her arms. Ringbang allowed the slaves to communicate. Ringbang is a bridge that allows us to stop being insular; it is a concept predicated on our being able to communicate with one another.
