When Steel Talks (WST) extends Happy Birthday greetings to musician, historian, ace composer and master calypsonian “Crazy” - born Edwin Ayoung

 


Happy Birthday to Edwin Ayoung 

March 19th

When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to composer and performing artist “Crazy” - Edwin Ayoung 

Edwin Ayoung or “Crazy” - born Edwin Ayoung in 1944, on Maraval Road in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad of a Venezuelan mother and Trinidadian father of Chinese descent, was - in his youth - as skilled and competitive in his country’s national pastime of cricket, as he has been now for years as a world-travelled musician, performing artist and composer.

Though dubbed “The Loveable Lunatic of Soca,” Ayoung has time and again not been given his due in his native land, yet remains one of the most commercially successful artists on the international soca scene. An experimentalist, he pioneered the unique musical genre known as Parang Soca and played a leading role in promoting Chutney Soca. Crazy would go on to sing several monster smashes in parang soca, including Cold Sweat, Muchacha and Homemade Wine.

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