Tropical Rock

Tropical Rock (or Trop-Rock) is a music genre that incorporates elements of Rock, Reggae, Country, Caribbean and Zydeco, inspired by an island style that represent a way of life that is relaxing and exotic. Trop-Rock should not be confused with the format of Latin Tropical music. Although today Tropical Rock is usually associated with southern Florida and the Gulf Coast of the United States, the roots of tropical rock are in the Southern California beach music of the 1960s with artists like Jan and Dean and The Beach Boys. Jimmy Buffett has been credited with the origin of the genre "Trop-Rock". It is also called California Beach Sound and Floribbean music.