Career
Born in Trinidad 1951, Brother Shortman (Bro Shortman) became, together with Brother Resistance, the lead singer of the Network Riddum Band in 1979. They developed a hybrid of soca and rap that they called rapso, a genre for which they credited Lancelot Layne as originator. Network Riddum Bands debut album 1981, Busting Out, became a major hit, defining the musical genre that would come to be known as rapso.
Busting Out was the first album to use the word rapso.
After the release of the album Rapso Explosion, Brother Shortman left Network Riddum Band and didn"t appear on the music scene until 2004, when he released the album "The Awakening Volume 1" as Rapso Rebel, after living in Sweden for more than a decade.
