Soca has always been a forceful presence in my life. As a child of parents who were born and raised in Trinidad, the island of this musical genre’s birth, its enchanting rhythms have turned my frowns ...

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 ...

ST. CROIX — Temisha Libert is capturing the attention regionwide with the release of two soca singles just in time for the Crucian Christmas Festival. Libert, with several Calypso Monarch titles under ...

ST. THOMAS — Young Virgin Islands soca artist Hunter Simpson is making his mark in the Caribbean music industry. He said at first he was wary about performing.

I still remember the sound of the truck horns, the signature fast-paced tempos and pumping bass. It was Labor Day in 1997, and “Big Truck” by Machel Montano and Xtatik was blasting through the ...

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 ...