Arrow

A founding father and leading purveyor of soca, a Trinidad-based blend of soul music and calypso, Arrow is best known in the U.S. for having written "Hot, Hot, Hot" - an international hit for the singer in 1983, but an American hit only as it was covered in 1987 by Buster Poindexter (David Johansen's lounge-lizard alter ego).

The youngest of nine children, Arrow listened to American R&B on the...