In the vibrant arena of Guyanese soca music, Vinel Hinds stands as a rising star, her melodies weaving through the colourful tapestry of Caribbean rhythms Now just 20 years old, Hinds’ journey in the ...
The entrée and dessert — New York’s annual West Indian American Day Carnival Parade — is weeks away, but Everybody’s magazine’s Calypso-Soca Festival & Tent is an impressive appetizer leading up the ...
Calvin Burnett’s song “HandyMan” has earned him the 2024 Soca Monarch crown, while Osei Clarke (OKC) is the new Calypso Monarch. According to the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, in Mashramani ...
The band from Trinidad and Tobago will headline the Unity Jazz Festival this week, bringing “a sense of joy” and its ...
What it is: These energetic Caribbean styles are characterized by continuous hip-rolling and thrusting; the waist-burning movements are often incorporated into Zumba workouts. What it sounds like: ...
This week the island of Antigua celebrates Carnival, also known as The Caribbean’s Greatest Summer Festival. The streets will be filled with the sweet sounds of soca, calypso music, and dancehall too.
“Now is always the right time”. That was the cheeky response from calypso songstress Karene Asche about the timing of her first solo soca release “Over Dey”. Asche, a former National Calypso 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 ...
“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, ...
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 ...
What it is: These energetic Caribbean styles are characterized by continuous hip-rolling and thrusting; the waist-burning movements are often incorporated into Zumba workouts. What it sounds like: ...