2023 — Sound of a Nation | Rhythm & Roots

2023

Place Niceby Adrian Dutchin

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📜 Guyana became the fastest-growing economy on earth. Oil production transformed the national conversation from survival to prosperity. Adrian Dutchin won the Soca Monarch with "Place Nice," and Gavin Mendonca took Guyanese folk music to France and Italy for the first time.

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“Every time I hear this song I’m back in my grandmother’s kitchen in Berbice on a Saturday morning. She’d be making cook-up and this would be playing on the radio.”— Marcia, Toronto

“My dad played this in the car every time we drove back from church in Georgetown. I didn’t appreciate it then. I do now.”— Devon, London

“This came out the year we moved to Brooklyn. My mother played it every time she was homesick. Which was every day.”— Priya, New York