Let the truth be told: How Shorty deceived the status quo to create Sokah.
Garfield Blackman (Photo Winston Peters) He confessed that he thought he was going mad. What he did not know at the time was that it would be his next musical step. Going down by “the line” in Marabella for a sea bath, sometimes three times day, was the meditation that brought Jamoo the musical upgrade to Sokah which he invented and for which he lost many friends along the way. Africans and Indians alike chastised him for blending their rhythms. And while he seeded 14 children with Claudette time has proven the late Garfield Blackman, Ras Shorty I, gave an entire nation a formula for love and unity which was largely ignored. “What they condemn me for is what they are using now,” he said, three years before he died. With a grieving heart, just a few years after Sokah descended, by and large, into vulgarity he admitted that he felt like he was a voice in the wilderness when he changed the formula, again. “The hardest pa...