Nikita_Adanna

I am what you call a Trini to di bone. Meaning, I love each and every aspect of my culture and I am very proud to be a Trinidadian. And while I love American Christmas carols, I absolutely love my soca parang as well. What is parang you ask? Parang is Christmas folk songs, it's a popular combination of soca, calypso, Latin and Venezuelan music.  Parang is also a huge part of my Trinidadian culture, as this is our version of Christmas carols.  So, for my ten favorite Christmas songs, I decided to split it with my five favorite Christmas carols as well as my five favorite parang songs. And believe me when I say that this was very tough! Five Favorite Parang songs 1. Soca Santa- Machel Montano 2. Trini Christmas- Susan Macio 3. Mamacita- Sharlene Boodram 4. Nikita- Scrunter 5. Bring Out De Ham- Marcia Miranda Five Favorite Christmas Carols 1. All I Want For Christmas- Mariah Carey 2. Rocking Around The Christmas Tr...

Christmas is my absolute favorite holiday. It's always been my favorite time of year since I was a little girl living in the Caribbean. It's especially hard to keep certain family holiday traditions alive, since we live in the states and the majority of my family still lives in Trinidad. Music is and always has been the one thing that always remind me of my childhood in Trinidad. So here is a list of my favorite holiday songs in no particular order. (I do not own the picture above, I thought it was cute). 1. Trini Christmas- Susan Macio 2. Soca Santa- Machel Montano 3. Rocking around the Christmas tree- Brenda Lee version 4. Bring out the ham- Marcia Mirando 5. Nikita- Scrunter 6. Mamacita- Sharlene Boodram 7. Anita- Scrunter 8. All I want for Christmas- Mariah Carey 9. It's Christmas- Baron 10. Yvonne- Crazy 11. Deck the halls 12. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays- Nsync 13. Feliz N...

So the time has come once again for me to countdown my favorite songs of 2012.. I really cannot believe the year is pretty much over.. And again although people always comment and say that over the years music has gotten worse, especially rap.. I feel as though music as progressed throughout time.. Last year I did a countdown of 100 songs, but this year I narrowed it down to 50 and believe when I say that it was a very tough decision, because I had a lot of favorite songs from this year lol.. So I hope you guys had a great year in 2012 and I want to wish everyone a bright and prosperous as well as a very happy new year!! So here is my top 100 songs of 2012 in no particular order.. 1. Diamonds- Rihanna 2. Pay phone- Maroon 5 3. Dive- Usher 4. Adorn- Miguel 5. We are young- Fun 6. End of time- Beyonce 7. Refill- Elle Varner 8. Boyfriend- Justin Bieber 9. Blow Me (one last kiss)- Pink 10. We are never ever getting back together- Taylor Swift 11. Too cl...