MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, June 21, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- Kes the Band literally brought the sunshine and Soca to Monterey, California recently as the ...

Soca sensation Kes staged his fourth annual IzWe Festival for over 15,000 fans during Trinidad Carnival yesterday, highlighting how popular the genre has become to live audiences both in the Caribbean ...

It’s time to party! Carnival’s coming to Miami this weekend. The music, the costumes, the food — they all celebrate Caribbean culture to the max. Deco checked in with Shaggy and Kes — two guys who are ...

When Kees Dieffenthaller was growing up in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1980s, the lively rhythms of soca and its predecessor calypso were the island’s sound — although they were usually exclusive to ...

When I think about how soca music makes me feel, I beam from the inside. Charge it to my Trinidadian roots, but whenever a big “chune” plays (old or new) my eyes close, hands go up, head tilts back ...

The first soca artist to headline Toronto’s Budweiser Stage, Kes the Band is paying homage to Toronto for helping him reach the height of his musical career. Earlier this month, the Trinidadian ...

But just in time for the start of carnival season 2022, Kes—whose musical aesthetic quenches the soul like a delicious rum punch made from a mix of soca, calypso, reggae, and pop—joined forces with ...

Go anywhere in the United States and odds are somebody, somewhere is doing a celebration for the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. The art form that was born in the Bronx, however, is not the only ...

Soca icons Kes the Band are primed to ride out the last days of summer, sharing their live album We Home last week. The album features familiar and re-worked versions of their biggest hits including ...

The VIBE exclusive video premiere from the band’s upcoming album, expected to drop this summer, is directed by Trinidadian filmmaker Maya Cozier (“Jolene”) and showcases the cultural diversity of the ...