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Wasim Braithwaite is a newcomer to the Antigua’s soca scene, it’s been a bumpy ride so far but he intends to press on.<\/p>

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He did not get past the eliminations last year and suffered the same fate again this year.<\/p>\n

He competed in the groovy with\u00a0Dance With Somebody<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Antigua we waking up <\/em>in the jumpy quarterfinals.<\/p>

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“I didn’t feel like myself during my performance,” Wasim said after being cut.<\/p>

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But the English Harbour resident said, “to sum it all up I’m not really discouraged.”<\/p>\n

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He told us how he was inspired to start singing.<\/p>

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“For years I’ve been looking up to other genres of music and saying, men, I want to make music like that and then one day I realized how can I call myself an Antiguan and not admire the indigenous music of my land,” Wasim said when asked how he got into soca.<\/p>\n

But as of now, he’s still determined to make a name for himself.<\/p>

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“It is too soon to say if it’s hard to get myself out there since I just started taking soca seriously,” he told ANR entertainment.<\/p>

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“My aim musically is to evolve the way we view music in Antigua, basically to not limit myself,” the 30-year-old singer said.<\/p>\n

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