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 ...

FOR Darryl “Farmer Nappy” Henry, the unimaginable has happened—soca music, a genre rooted in revelry and the road, is now ...

On Monday (Jan. 13), the Trinidadian music icon treated NPR’s Tiny Desk series to its very first soca set. Born out of ’70s calypso in Trinidad and Tobago, soca music is characterized by its ...

Montano's performance is the first to bring soca, the high energy dance music of the Caribbean, to the Tiny Desk. The genre was born in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s when calypso artist ...

An up-and-coming immigrant DJ paid for an argument with a rival Brooklyn dollar van driver with his life, leaving his loved ones shattered. Johanci Chapman, 25, was shot as he quarreled with his ...

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Charles Ramson Jr appeared quite chuffed recently when he announced that the Dancehall Monarch Competition, which he ...

Every July, during Carnival, hundreds rainbow-clad masqueraders ascend this spray-painted landmark in celebration, jumping and twerking and whining to the beat of sweet soca music. It’s quite a ...

Music is the heart and soul of these twin islands, and nowhere is this more evident than in the genres of soca and calypso. These two styles have shaped the musical landscape of Trinidad and Tobago ...