Black Power and Unions grew in the 1970s, and rapso grew along with them. The first recording was ''Blow Away'' by Lancelot Layne in 1970 . Six years later, Cheryl Byron was scorned when she sang rapso at a Calypso Tent ; she is now called the "Mother of Rapso".
The term ''rapso'' was not invented until '' with the Network Riddum Band . Initially dominated by the children of the Black Power movement, changes came in the 1990s with the younger artistes adopting the artform, most significantly the bands Kindred and 3 Canal .
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