Paradise Island is located just off the shores of Nassau and is most famous for its sugary white beaches and the Atlantis Hotel and Entertainment Complex situated just a few feet from the Riu. All through the islands of The Bahamas, music is woven deeply into the fabric of daily life—so much so that one of the nicknames given to the archipelago is “the Islands of Song”. Musical traditions here reflect both the impact of history on the islands and a homegrown, distinctively national character. Blues and spirituals made their way down from the American South and took on a Bahamian flavor, in breezy seaside church choirs where rhyming spirituals are sung, and on homemade guitars in the hands of virtuoso performers like the legendary Joseph Spence and his contemporary Israel Forbes