Paranda

Paranda is the name of both a backing band and a genre of music -- specifically, a hybrid of West African percussion and guitar (often reminiscent of artists like Ali Farka Toure) and native Caribbean sounds. Paranda is the music of the Garifuna people, who descended from a mix of African and Arawak Indian stock and were deported from the island of St. Vincent to Central America by the British. ...more