Ataklan's second album, Atamorphosis, was released in 1999 to critical acclaim. This was a collaboration with Machel Montano and during this time, the artist toured the US with the band Xtatik for one year. In 1998 Ataklan released his first album, Atanomical. Subsequent to this, the artist founded his own record label, TAJ Records (named after his son Tyrone Anthony Jiminez), operating out of his hometown.
The Bucketeers had appearances on Local Talent shows including "Party Time", winning best original act and scoring second place twice in a row. Ataklan was also the founder and manager of a youth musical initiative called "The Laventille Bucketeers" which consisted of 12 young Laventille residents playing original music compositions and rhythms on plastic buckets. Ataklan was a foundation member of the four-member Rapso group called Homefront from 1992 to 1993 under the Kiskidee Karavan. Since his emergence in 1993, Ataklan has released tracks including "Flambo", "Naked Walk", "Flood on the Main Road", "Shadow in de Dark", "Soca Girl" and "Caribbean Swagga", among numerous others.īorn and raised in Chinapoo, Morvant, Laventille, Trinidad), Ataklan underwent vocal and performance training in his formative years from Ras Shorty I, who has been recognized as the inventor of what we now know as modern Soca music.
Ataklan has been referred to as "Trinidad's answer to Beck" and a "fiercely independent songwriter and singer and arguably the most original artist to have emerged on the island since David Rudder". Mark Antonio Jiminez, better known by his stage name Ataklan is a Trinidadian singer-songwriter and performer primarily of the modern rapso tradition.
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