Could you make a tradtional bread and butter pudding? Yes

Could you become a traditional bread and butter pudding maker. Not really - you'd always be an arriviste - a revivalist of the traditional bread and butter pudding making techniques.

so would you live your life in the shadows, a failure by your own standards because you were merely a wannabe - your aspirations dashed by a cruel twist of fate - an accident of birth and cultural background? For some people , that is the case. i don't suppose all those people who joined the Hitler youth - set out wanting to be categorised as the scumbags of history.

we all have to acquit ourselves as best we can, and hope for the best. that's life. that's the deal we all have.

Even poor old Gibb Sahib is on his way to learning something (albeit in a rather juvenile judgemental way)

if you feel you have a contribution to make as a calypso singer - just go for it. learn as much as as you can in the process. you may not end up with exactly what you aim for, but if you commit all your creative effort and are generous with the energy you expend - you'll end up with something worthwhile and interesting. At very least, you will learn a lot about yourself, about music, and a lot about YOUR community - which is the environs you will be working in as an artist. And your community (you will find) will be the determinant of your art - not some tradtional faraway one you can only read about or at best, live alongside.