Sounds

Flying Turkey, “Freedom Day” (1981):

Flying Turkey aka Cecil Belfon currently runs an online Grenada Market:  http://www.grenadamarket.com/

Forward March,” the anthem of the Grenada Revolution:

 

Flying Turkey, “Innocent Blood” (1981):

 

Maurice Bishop’s Hunter College Speech, 1983, a few months before his assassination:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Q6Kv7ihF4&index=5&list=PL8B35D5BA669D8616

General Hudson Austin’s Radio Address on October 19, 1983, after Maurice Bishop’s assassination:

http://www.caribvideos.net/hudson-austin-speech-announcing-the-killing-of-maurice-bishop-october-19-1983-video_c71a0f984.html

Scorpion’s calypso “The Plain Truth” about October 19, 1983 and the Grenada Revolution:

Livingston Nelson’s reggae poem on the rise and fall of the Grenada Revolution:

Excerpt from Dave Lippman’s “They’re Setting a Bad Example” (1987):

http://www.davelippman.com/

Excerpts from Dave Martins and the Trade Winds’ “Cuban in Grenada”:

http://www.dtradewinds.com/

Excerpts from Black Wizard’s calypso “All Must Answer” (2008), a critical commentary on the US invasion:

A CD selection of Black Wizard’s calypsoes can be purchased by contacting the author.

Scaramouche in 2013 sings (without accompaniment) his 1984 calypso “Music” praising the US invasion:


Song sung by schoolchildren at the renaming ceremony of the Maurice Bishop International Airport, May 29, 2009:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXzmGYmCoxQ