The Caribbean American Cultural Caucus Inc is a not-for-profit organization committed to the development of the entertainment industry across the Caribbean region and the Caribbean Diaspora.
Caribbean music is among the best known aspects of Caribbean culture. The music has achieved worldwide recognition and over the past 40 years, Reggae artists and Calyposians alike have performed in major cities on every continent. Steel orchestras (Steelbands) have been established in cities in Japan, Sweden, Africa, South America, Canada, and the USA. Performers from Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America participate in the annual Creole Festival held in Dominica annually, and yet, Caribbean music has experienced diminutive commercial success in the international market.
Given the dynamism of the music, we are confident that increased knowledge of the “inner - workings” of the international entertainment industry, coupled with a goals-driven review of ways of “doing things” can contribute immensely to heightened success in the future. In 2009, CACC Board came together to organize the inaugural Caribbean Cultural Conference, at the Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York during Caribbean Heritage Month (June). This was the organization’s first step towards its goal of hosting a high quality event that would bring music industry stakeholders together to discuss issues and explore developmental strategies.
OUR OBJECTIVES
- Collaborate with global entertainment industry experts who share our mission
- To host workshops as well as an annual entertainment conference that will educate and raise awareness about topical structural development issues in the Caribbean region and the Caribbean Diaspora,
- Produce high quality music lifestyle tours, concerts and festivals that will highlight and promote Caribbean culture
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Junior Forbes, Chairman
Junior Forbes is considered a veteran of the entertainment industry. Since 1987 he has worked with numerous musical acts including Morgan Heritage, Dennis Brown, Freddie McGreggor, The Mighty Diamonds, Beres Hammond, Marcia Griffiths, Sanchez, Shabba Ranks, Super Cat. He has also produced and assisted with the coordination of several showcases, festivals and concerts including, Reggae Super Fest, Reggae Sunsplash, and Japan Splash
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Bob Frederick
Also known as ‘D’Spice Man,’ Bob Frederick has a long history of serving the Caribbean people through radio. He has worked as Broadcaster, Music Director, Caribbean Program Director and Overall Program Director for stations WVOX, WYNE 91.5FM, WXXO, WXTN, WLIB and is currently President of Island Radio can now be heard on his daily drive time radio program in New York at WVIP 93.5 FM.
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Hon. Eugene Pursoo
Hon. Eugene Pursoo is a Distinguished Lecturer at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York. He has served with distinction as the United Nations Ambassador and Permanent Representative with plenipotentiary powers for Grenada, from 1991 to 1995. Ambassador Pursoo is currently the Director of the International Affairs Center at Medgar Evers College.
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Irwine G. Clare, Sr.
Mr. Clare is the co-founder and managing director of the New York-based Caribbean Immigrant Services, Inc. (CIS), an organization with the goal of mobilizing and empowering the Caribbean Diaspora in the United States. He is also the Founder and CEO of Team Jamaica Bickle, which for the past several years has worked with community organizations and businesses to host athletes from the Caribbean participating at the annual Penn Relays. He is a director of Caribbean World News Network, and presently is the host of Caribbean Lifestyle TV
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Michelle E. Arthurton
Ms. Arthurthon is President and CEO of Independent record label, E2 Recordings, and its subsidiaries, Le 2 Music Publishing, E2 Music Management and E2 Bookings. . A native of St. Kitts, Ms. Arthurton possesses over 15 years of experience in the entertainment and legal field and is always fully engaged in the betterment of the music industry at large and the Reggae community in particular. She is a member of the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association (B.E.S.L.A), the National Academy of Recording Arts and Science (The Grammys), Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide, The Coalition to Preserve Reggae (CPR) and Reggae A.M.P.P.S (Artists, Musicians, Producers, Promoters & Songwriters).
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Stan Smith
Stan Smith 29-year love affair with journalism has seen him serve as Music Editor, Music Critic, Publicist, entertainment reporter and photojournalist, for the Reggae Times Newspaper, RAPS Magazine, Everybody’s Magazine, CLASS Magazine, Unfold Magazine, Caribbean Times, Jamaica Times Newspaper, the Reggae Times, and VIBE Magazine. He has interviewed acclaimed personalities including, Matisyahu, Diana King, Beres Hammond, Wyclef Jean, Freddie McGreggor, Tanya Stephens, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Malik Yoba.
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