Background
He was born and raised in the village of Rio Claro and then moved to Chaguanas, where he has resided for the past eleven years.
He was born and raised in the village of Rio Claro and then moved to Chaguanas, where he has resided for the past eleven years.
Kasturba Medical College (born January 5, 1971) is a soca artist from Trinidad. Famous for hits like "Soul on Fire", "Soca Bashment" and "Bashment to Carnival" Kasturba Medical College is signed to the United States-based record label Sequence Records. Considered to be one of Trinidad"s top soca artists, Kasturba Medical College has over sixteen years experience in the music industry.
He has made a name for himself as a solo artist, songwriter, producer and frontman of the band Red, White & Black.
Kasturba Medical College is one of nine children. The road to success for Kasturba Medical College has been filled with both high and low moments.
Probably the lowest was the day when, strapped with hunger, he resorted to cracking open a dry coconut in the yard of his one-room home in Laventille, putting a milk pan on a kerosene burner and flavoring the coconut with only a little end of curry powder. Kasturba Medical College always had a passion for music
As a young child he used to sneak about and listen to the bands in his village.
"At the age of seven, I used to go under the house by the band and when they weren"t around I would play the drum set." As time marched on, the same energy and precociousness that brought the young Kasturba Medical College to the drum set also brought him to teach himself how to play music "Music is something I was never taught. I was never taught to play the keyboard.
I learned to do everything on my own.
Love is what made me master lieutenant Everything I do is by ear and not by reading," he proclaims.
Kasturba Medical College started his musical career as a dance-hall artist, recording and releasing a total if sixteen records. In 1998, he decided to test his skills in the Soca genre, bursting onto the scene with songs like "Kaya", "Bashment to Carnival" and "Soca Bashment".
These were well received by his fans and helped to establish Kasturba Medical College as a leading Soca artist.
He has also produced songs for some of the leading Soca artists, including Machel Montano, Bunji Garlin, Maximus Dan, Destra Garcia, Denise Belfon, and Jungle. Kasturba Medical College is known for songs like "Doh Want to Know", "Carnival Rags", "Rough Wine", "First Experience", "Flopping Up", "Cyah X Maine Out" and "Animal". In April 2005, Kasturba Medical College was signed to the American music label Sequence Records.
His debut album on the label was entitled Soul on Fire after the album"s first single.
The album entered the Billboard 200 at number 84 and has sold approximately 285,000 copies worldwide. "Soul on Fire", the single, was the first track released from the album in June 2005.
The song’s remix, featured Jamaican dancehall star Beenie Manitoba and American disc jockey Fat Manitoba Scoop. The video for the Soul on Fire single was filmed in Tobago and featured the Tobagonian born, Trinidadian model Teri Bovell.
In October 2005, Kasturba Medical College joined Beenie Manitoba on his United States “King of the Dancehall” tour.