Interview with Short Pants. (1)

Abstract

SHORT PANTS: I've always liked Calypso since I was a boy. But if you know anything about calypso, it's not something that was encouraged in the past. When I was about age 15 or 16 at school, I'd try and write a song or two, but I was never brave enough to ask my parents to go to a competition. There was just one competition those days for children. A lady called Auntie K had a talent show on Sundays on the radio and when it got near to the calypso season (3), she'd devote one of those programmes to calypso. This was a very laudable thing to do because nobody else really taught much of calypso. Every I'd tell the boys in the class I'll go this year but I hadn't written the calypso. I was always scared that if I went and asked my father, he wouldn't approve.