Augustus Hinds (1906 – 1984), who performed under the stage name Bill Rogers, was a Guyanese singer and songwriter, credited with developing shanto music.
The songs included "B. G. Bargee" ("bargee" or "bhagee" being a type of dance rhythm); "The West Indian Weed Woman" (also known as "The Weed Song", later recorded by Harry Belafonte), describing the use of local plants in medicine and cooking; and "Sugar, Cent a Pound", about sugar salvaged from a local shipwreck.
[3] According to the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Rogers' recordings in 1934 "represent an incisive reflection on the issues that dominated Guyanese society during the late 1920s and early 1930s".
In 1952, he visited Britain, and recorded two sessions in London with producer Denis Preston, one for Parlophone and one for Melodisc, reprising some of his most popular songs.
[4] Melodisc released the song "Nice Woman, Ugly Man", on which he was backed by musicians including Freddy Grant and Mike McKenzie, as a single in the UK.