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 ...

To celebrate the seventh edition of Drake's annual OVO hip-hop festival, organizers added a Caribbean music concert featuring soca and dancehall artists to launch the series Saturday (July 30) at… By ...

GET Soca 2016, a compilation set, debuted at number 10 on Billboard’s Reggae album chart yesterday. The project was released by Fox Fuse on February 5. Get Soca 2016 comprises recent soca hits from ...

Soca imbues the listener with a sense of freedom and puckish abandon, but for those that make a living off it, the genre’s never-ending fête can sometimes be creatively limiting. The annual carnival ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some R12,5 billion rand in investment has been attracted by the Tshwane metro in the past five years – exceeding the capital city’s target by R3.5 billion. Delivering his state-of-the-capital address ...

Survivors, supporters, fitness buffs and soca fans will be able to fete for a cause at CIBC FirstCaribbean’s ‘Soca for the Cure’ event. Organisers promise this interactive fitness experience, which ...

Registration for the 16th edition of the 2016 Chutney Soca Monarch has started and artistes are asked to submit their songs for the upcoming season. There will be a new title - that of “Chutney Soca ...

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