Music of Barbados
| Lesser Antillean music |
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| Anguilla |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
| Barbados |
| Bonaire and Curaçao |
| Dominica |
| Grenada |
| Martinique and Guadeloupe |
| Montserrat |
| Netherlands Antilles and Aruba |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| Saint Lucia |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
| Virgin Islands |
Barbados is home to spouge music, which is played on guitars, mandolins and drums, but is best known as a second home for Trinidadian calypso and soca. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Barbadian artists like Spice, Gabby and Red Plastic Bag became popular in Trinidad and elsehwere, leading the way for a more fully-developed Barbadian sound (often characterized by Eddy Grant's Ring Bang rhythm) that arose in the 1990s and was popularized by groups like Square One and krosfyah.