Calypso has also had a powerful influence on parang. When you listened to vintage calypso you would often hear a maracas or a cuatro strumming along, however, equally calypso had a unique influence on Parranderos, long before the inception of “soca parang” or “parang soca”. The Lara brothers were one of the earliest recorded parang bands to infuse calypso and parang. Visionaries that they were, they would very early in their recording career do the unthinkable: record the calypso ‘Cow in Morvant