Soca/Calypso

Basseterre, St.Kitts (January 2009):- St.Kitts hot soca group d’Vybz blazed onto the soca music scene just 3 carnivals ago and despite many challenges the group has managed to produce the top album for St.Kitts-Nevis carnival 2008/09. Led by the vibrant,exciting and talented soca diva Shakki the band has once again produced a critically acclaimed album . The band released , “Doing it Right” on ...

January 2009, the first release for the new year from Kes the Band is a collaboration with the exceptionally talented Madmen Productions team. The new song is called “Till the Morning” and is described by Kees Dieffenthaller, lead singer of Kes as a very “sensual” track. The song was written by the four members of Kes, Kees Dieffenthaller, Riad Boochoon, Hans Dieffenthaller and Jon Dieffenthaller and

Carriacou’s Skinny Banton has launched his 2009 track entitled ‘No War’.  Produced by Mount Zion Studio and written by Skinny its message is to encourage people to stop fighting and to jump together in love. Skinny Banton is a Soca and ...

"Being west indian , is not a rich or poor thing, or a black or white thing, it's having the ability to identify with so many different cultures and still have a culture that's uniquely yours. Each island has it's own unique flavor and when you blend it all together you get a taste that is just simply irresistible." As the Carnival season kicks into high gear for ...

Soca music has just been shifted into a gear now called “hyper-soca-matic”. This is all due to Montserrat soca artist Scrappy. Scrappy has for the third year managed to give the soca arena a next reason to keep their ears open and give space to this young vibrant soca act. Scrappy’s summer release “Start To Bounce” produced by fellow Montserratian producer/artist “SocaChild”  has ...

Toronto, Canada  - A new advocacy campaign was launched yesterday to officially list soca as a musical genre on the internet entertainment portal, Myspace.com.  The initiative entitled Bring Soca to MySpace is lobbying to make it easy for fans to browse soca music online and interact with their favourite ...

J'ouvert morning when you awake to music in your head the only logical thing to do is find a band and misbehave, Trini style that is!! Get your bottle and spoon and get ready to go back, way back to the 80's and be sure to carry that soca beat with you. A musical journey is what you will take, one to challenge memory. Remember when music and dancing was pure fun and not forced fun? Well get ready to crank the music up louder, we heading to ...

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad – The artiste that gained poplarity in 2008 through the release of tracks such as “Get On Bad”, “Lose Control” and the popular “Behind De Truck” is back again to satisfy the appetite of Soca fans with a new arsenal of material just in time for T&T’s Carnival 2009 ...

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad – Dynamic Barbadian production duo, De Red Boyz, has dominated with their latest Soca compilation CD release entitled, “Mo’ Fire Blazin”. The musical tag team of Mikey Hulsmeier and Scott Galt has received affirmation and respect from Soca lovers and industry professionals globally and their productions have received mass rotation on the airwaves as well as on ...

Burton Toney is back! After taking a hiatus from the carnival scene for the last two years, the Tobago-born singer is making his re-entry with three mega hits. With "Only You" and "Shawty" two groovy soca, and "Find You" a up tempo song, Burton believes he has the right mix of music to please all soca ...