In total, he recorded more than 15 albums. He followed Nani and Nana with an album combining local Trinidadian music with traditional Indian folk music. After the success of Nani and Nana, Popo devoted more of his time to his singing career. The song revolutionized Indian music in Trinidad and Tobago. After listening to Nani and Nana, a song with lyrics in both Trinidadian Hindustani and Trinidadian English, describing the daily lives of an Indian maternal grandmother (Nani) and maternal grandfather (Nana), Mohammed got maestro Harry Mahabir to record the song at Television House, accompanied by the British West Indies Airways (BWIA) National Indian Orchestra. In 1969, at a mattikoor in Princes Town, he met Moean Mohammed, a radio host and promoter. Popo worked as a watchman at a Barrackpore factory, and trained in music under the Indian classical singer Ustad James Ramsawak. At the age of 15, he began singing bhajans at mandirs and weddings in his hometown for 15 to 30 cents a show. ![]() Both his parents were musicians his mother was a singer and his father was an accomplished tassa drummer. Popo was born on 4 November 1943 in Monkey Town, Barrackpore, Trinidad and Tobago into a Hindu Indo-Trinidadian family.
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