Global (Bunji Garlin album)
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Global is an album by Trinidadian Ragga Soca
Soca music
Soca is a style of music from Trinidad and Tobago. Soca is a musical development of traditional Trinidadian calypso, through loans from the 1960s onwards from predominantly black popular music....

 artist Bunji Garlin
Bunji Garlin
Bunji Garlin July 14, 1978 is a Reggae Soca artist from Trinidad and Tobago. His real name is Ian Alvarez. He is of saint Lucian and Venezuelan descent. He married fellow Soca artist Fay-Ann Lyons on December 23, 2006, daughter of legendary Soca singer Superblue...

 released in 2007 by VP Records
VP Records
VP Records is an independent reggae record label, located in Queens, New York. It is best known for producing Caribbean singers.-The foundation:...

. The album is Garlin's first that he aimed at international audiences, with previous released aimed only at the West Indies, and he explained "In order for the genre to grow, we have to put out music that people throughout all of the islands can feel, not just for Trinidad". The album features guest appearances by Chris Black (on "Swing It") and Freddie McGregor
Freddie McGregor
Freddie McGregor has been variously a singer, musician and producer. According to Allmusic he is one of reggae's most durable and soulful singers, with a steady career that started in the 1960s, when he was just seven years old.-Biography:In 1963 he joined with Ernest Wilson and Peter Austin to...

 (on "One Family"). Allmusic's Rick Anderson called it "very nice overall", commenting that Garlin's vocals were "straight out of the dancehall -- more rapid-fire declamation than melodic calypso crooning".

Track listing

  1. "No Super Hero"
  2. "Pan and Soca"
  3. "Brrt" (Marchout Riddim)
  4. "Get Up Stand Up" - (featuring T.O.K.
    T.O.K.
    T.O.K. is a dancehall group hailing from Kingston, Jamaica. The group consists of Alistaire "Alex" McCalla, Roshaun "Bay-C" Clarke, Craig "Craigy T" Thompson, and Xavier "Flexx" Davidson...

    )
  5. "Fire Fi Dem"
  6. "Hardcore Lover" - (featuring Rita Jones)
  7. "We Maniac"
  8. "Globally"
  9. "Raise Yuh Hand"
  10. "Blaze It Up"
  11. "Swing It" - (featuring Chris Black)
  12. "One Family" - (featuring Freddie McGregor
    Freddie McGregor
    Freddie McGregor has been variously a singer, musician and producer. According to Allmusic he is one of reggae's most durable and soulful singers, with a steady career that started in the 1960s, when he was just seven years old.-Biography:In 1963 he joined with Ernest Wilson and Peter Austin to...

    )
  13. "Put in the Thing"
  14. "Turn Me On"
  15. "Hands Up"
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