Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine April 2018 | Page 656

Chutney Soca East Indians came to Trinidad as indentured servants after emancipation. They brought their religion and culture with them. Today, Chutney, the music of the East-Indians has been fused with Soca which is synonymous with Trinidad’s African culture, and together a new genre, Chutney-Soca was created. It represents an infectious marriage of the two cultures,through music.