Birth name Everard Romany Years active 1970s–present Also known as Rapso Rebel | Origin Trinidad Name Brother Shortman Genres Rapso, rhythm poetry | |
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Born October 11, 1951 (age 72) ( 1951-10-11 ) | ||
Associated acts Network Riddum Band | ||
Everard Romany aka Brother Shortman, also known as Rapso Rebel, is a rhythm poet and musician from Trinidad and Tobago.
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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 début 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 Vol. 1" as Rapso Rebel, after living in Sweden for more than a decade.