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2 unusual facts about Barbadian people


Forget Forever

The song features a "bright and airy" production according to Nate Jones of Popdust, and has been compared to the works of Scottish electro house DJ Calvin Harris and Barbadian recording artist Rihanna.

Porto Velho

After the railroad was completed, the local population was about one thousand inhabitants; its buildings were chiefly the railway's installations and the wooden houses of the Caribbean (mainly Barbadian) workers - hence the name of the town's largest district by then, "Bajan Hill" or "Barbados Town", nowadays called the "Alto do Bode".


I Heard It Through the Grapevine

For the 1985 Levi's 501 commercial, "Launderette", featuring male model Nick Kamen, agency BBH and director Roger Lyons, owing to budgetary constraints, brought in Karl Jenkins and Mike Ratledge to recreate the sound of the Marvin Gaye original with Tony Jackson, a Barbadian background singer for Paul Young, handling vocals and P. P. Arnold on backing vocals.


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