Rikki jai biography
Rikki jai biography
Rikki jai mor tor!
Remember Sumintra? No, I don’t mean the woman from next door who you grew up calling ‘Auntie’ or the girl who was a few classes ahead of you in primary school.
I mean ‘Sumintra,’ the monster hit song that catapulted Samraj Jaimungal (Rikki Jai) into the limelight and precipitated his transformation from an East Indian band singer to a nationally known cross over artiste.
Even though I was a child, I can still remember the ‘Sumintra’ music video being shown on what was then Trinidad and Tobago’s lone television station, TTT (which stood for…you guessed it: Trinidad and Tobago Television!).
“Hold de Lata Mangeshkar, gimme soca, ah ha, ah ha!” sang Rikki Jai, as he told the story in song of an East Indian woman from Debe that he was courting who was expressing a preference for soca music over music from the great Indian songstress Lata Mangeshkar.
During a recent interview with Paradise Pulse Online Magazine at Big R