See also
Trinidad and Tobago and
Tobago. Half of the twin-island republic of
Trinidad and Tobago. Second largest of the Commonwealth Caribbean islands (behind
Jamaica). The most southernmost of the
Caribbean islands (although Guyana, a mainland country in South America, is the southernmost of countries considered Caribbean). Musically, Trinidad and Tobago is the birthplace and headquarters of
calypso and
soca music and their variant genres; the
steel pan (the official instrument of the
Caribbean, and the only instrument invented in the 20th century, besides, arguably, the turntable); the
limbo dance; the home of the largest, most reknowned of all the Caribbean
Carnivals; and the prime exponent of masquerade, or
'mas.
Calypso, soca, and the steel pan were born and bred in Trinidad and Tobago, and are now produced by countless other countries.
