“It’s all about unity, togetherness” — these are the opening lyrics to one of Caribbean Soca sensation Destra Garcia‘s most recognizable hits, “ Fly,” and they perfectly signify the energy her music ...
DJ Mario Focused is gearing up for one of the biggest events of his career. He is among the line-up of DJs set to provide the musical thrills on night one of the two-day Soca Plus Festival. Soca Plus ...
The just-concluded soca season has been a good one for in-demand soca disc jock, DJ Kevy. The university student played at several events, among them Touchdown Jamaica, Final Fete at the University of ...
Some artists break through with their very first single; others go their entire careers unheard. Trinidad Killa, who’s been in the music industry for a quarter-century now, got his long-overdue break ...
City Cat Radio, the weekly radio program of Oakland’s own DJ/Producer/Engineer DJ HENROC, is designed to celebrate plain old good music including Soul, Roots, Reggae, Dancehall, Soca, Afro Beat, Funk, ...
From Dash's Road March victory to a gorgeous steelpan showcase at Panorama, here are the five best music moments of Spicemas 2024 By Kyle Denis Music is more globalized than ever, which means cultural ...
An uptempo style of music influenced by British, French and native Caribbean tribal rhythms, soca features rhythms deeply rooted in Asia and Africa. It was created especially for Carnival and played ...
For those who couldn't make it to carnival in Trinidad and Tobago, VP Records has once again performed a public service by collecting all the soca (soul-calypso) hits from carnival season in a two-CD… ...
Soca music fans subsist in a feast-or-famine world. Feasts come during Carnival — especially Trinidad Carnival, king of them all — when the exuberant, dance-driven tunes are released faster than soca ...
If it sounds like soca, and makes you dance like soca – is it still definitely soca music? The success of the carnival song, Differentology, by the artist Bunji Garlin has spurred public debate about ...