San­gre Grande bard Er­ic Tay­lor is call­ing for the rein­tro­duc­tion of the Fed­er­a­tion. He's plead­ing with West In­di­an lead­ers to Let's Try Again. He sang the po­lit­i­cal com­men­tary at the open­ing of Ka­lyp­so Re­vue, Ari­ma Velo­drome last month. In­ter­viewed last week, Tay­lor said: "I am say­ing Let's Try Again. I am call­ing up­on the Caribbean lead­ers to try again. It end­ed in 1962. We had Carif­ta and Cari­com. But I think it is time we try again." Tay­lor felt the Caribbean had the po­ten­tial to em­u­late Eu­rope. Tay­lor added: "If we have to make it in the glob­al vil­lage, we have to em­u­late Eu­rope. We must have one mon­ey, one flag and one an­them. We should be one na­tion to stand up to the pow­ers of the world. It is nec­es­sary in an era of glob­al­i­sa­tion." Tay­lor is al­so show­ing his pen­chant for par­ty­ing.

He added: "I am mak­ing a bid for the Road March. We had JW and Blaze. They had Palance. I feel Bal­ance could do the same thing. It is a po­lit­i­cal com­men­tary. I got the in­spi­ra­tion when Nizam Mo­hammed said there were too many black men in the se­nior ech­e­lons of the po­lice ser­vice and he called for bal­ance." He added: "I am call­ing for eq­ui­ty and trans­paren­cy in the so­ci­ety. Where every creed and race should find an equal place."

Tay­lor lauds fel­low bards

Quizzed on his sen­ti­ments on the C2K12 cor­pus, Tay­lor laud­ed his com­rades for singing on top­i­cal is­sues rang­ing from Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar's ad­min­is­tra­tion to the state of emer­gency. He said: "The ca­lyp­son­ian has done a lot of work to com­ment on the is­sues. There are so many is­sues. They have done their part in com­ment­ing. He con­tin­ues to be the mu­si­cal com­men­ta­tor for so­ci­eties, com­ing up with sug­ges­tions for the way for­ward. The mu­sic is fan­tas­tic and the stan­dard is high. The so­ca men have con­tin­ued the good mu­sic. I like Ker­win Dubois' Bac­cha­nal­ist. Our cul­tur­al peo­ple con­tin­ue to ex­cel." He felt Re­vue had com­piled a nice pro­gramme fea­tur­ing artistes like its artis­tic di­rec­tor Michael Os­una, Baron and Ajala.

About Tay­lor

Tay­lor start­ed singing un­der the tute­lage of the late Lord Kitch­en­er of Rain­o­ra­ma fame since 1983. Since fel­low vet­er­an bard Ed­win Ay­oung's move to Klas­sic Ru­so, Tay­lor claims to "be­ing the longest serv­ing mem­ber of the cast."

Among his mile­stones were:

• Young King 1992-Why Ah Change To Blue

• Monarch fi­nal­ist 98, 99, 2000

• Se­mi-fi­nal­ist sev­er­al times

• In­de­pen­dence monarch fi­nal­ist

• Thought-pro­vok­ing so­cio-po­lit­i­cal com­men­taries like Mr Big Stuff, Laugh­ing In D' Ghet­to and Mis­print