Meghan Trainor Quotes

I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music.

My parents are from Jamaica, and I love reggae music.

I listen to some rap music. I'm from the Bahamas so I like reggae as well. And then I slow it down with a little Frank Sinatra.

You’re that lady,” Leo said. “The one who was named after Caribbean music.” Her eyes glinted murderously. “Caribbean music.” “Yeah. Reggae?” Leo shook his head. “Merengue? Hold on, I’ll get it.” He snapped his fingers. “Calypso!

And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

Creatively, I've always wanted to be different as it relates to my craft, and reggae, being a part of my culture, makes up a percentage of that uniqueness. The only definition I can think of to describe my style is 'OMI.'

My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.

You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island.

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

I'm from the Caribbean, and I love the dance hall sound.

As soon as I heard 'Calypso,' I loved it.

I rap and I sing, so then you've got a bit of hip-hop in there. I'm Jamaican, so you got a bit of dancehall. And I'm from London, so there's a bit of London things in there... And at sometimes, it's a little bit Afrobeat.

My sister listened to reggae, and my homies listened to trap music.

We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.

I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.

Music was always heavily involved with my spirit. My entire family is Jamaican. It's nothing but reggae music and those kinds of vibes.

I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop.

Reggae is definitely a natural influence. Even living in Southern California, near the water, you get that reggae feel.

I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My parents had memorized poems from their days attending school in New York City and loved reciting them. We all enjoyed listening to these poems and to music as well.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

I prefer black music in general.

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.