Kobo Town is a Toronto-based group whose music draws its inspiration from traditional calypso, roots reggae and dub poetry. Named after the vibrant and turbulent neighbourhood in old Port-of-Spain where Calypso was born, the group strives to recover the social conscience, satirical storytelling and strong acoustic/organic rhythms that characterized Trinidadian music in the past.

'Independence' Picked As #3 Groove Album Of 2007 By Exclaim!

Winner of Best World Song for "Corbeaux Following" by the 2007 Toronto Exclusive Magazine Awards

"Merging calypso, roots reggae, acoustic performance, dub studio techniques and Trinidadian/Jamaican cultures, Kobo Town is a unique, stylistic, transnational composite of rhythm, poetry and activist journalism."- Brent Hagerman, Exclaim!


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