If there’s a current “big three” when it comes to different styles of Caribbean music, it’s probably reggae, dancehall and soca. Between Buju Banton’s Stateside return and Vybz Kartel’s release from ...

Since beginning his career as a seven-year-old soca wunderkind with "Too Young to Soca", Machel Montano has been no stranger to accolades, racking up Soca Monarch Titles and Road March victories in ...

On a Friday night last February, a singer in a gold lamé suit and matching kufi stepped off a throne to pounding drums and a loud chanting of his name. As Olatunji performed his single “Ola,” dancers ...

ST. CROIX — One of the highly anticipated events of this year’s Crucian Christmas Festival is the Soca Party Monarch Competition, which draws thousands to Festival Village to see who is crowned Soca ...

The semi-final round of the 2016 International Soca Monarch music competition took place at the Grand Stand of the Queen’s Park Savannah in the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, on January 17, 2016. To ...

Hip-hop isn't the only cultural movement celebrating its golden anniversary this year; soca, the up-tempo, propulsive descendant of calypso created in Trinidad and embraced across the Caribbean ...