A comprehensive history of calypso and soca competition winners at Trinidad Carnival has been created in the book “The Finalists: A Graphical Look Back at Trinidad & Tobago’s Calypso and Soca Monarch ...

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 ...

IF THE BIG LABOR DAY CARNIVAL was a motion to name New York America’s Caribbean capital, the third annual World Calypso and Soca Monarch Finals are certainly going to second that motion. On Sept. 22 ...

Soca music is not for the faint at heart. The Trinidadian genre is calypso's faster, raunchier, studio-driven wayward child; the word comes from "soul of calypso," and the genre was inaugurated in the ...

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 ...

Three of Trinidad's buzziest soca acts chat with Billboard about the genre's future ahead of 2025 Carnival. By Kyle Denis If there’s a current “big three” when it comes to different styles of ...

“OUT of the mouths of babes and sucklings”...and so it is that at just 11 years old, one of Trinidad and Tobago’s rising superstars is calling on the nation to sing less dancehall and trinibad music, ...

The soundtrack of Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, especially where calypso music is concerned, has traditionally been topical, dealing with national or even global issues that have captured people's ...

New York’s West Indian Day Parade has marked the city’s Labor Day weekend for decades, and this year, the festivities begin at 9 p.m. on a Wednesday night. “They say this is the last weekend of summer ...