Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In celebration of Caribbean American Heritage Month in June, Garcia recently spoke with In The Know about her humble beginnings, ...

Machel Montano has been performing soca music since he was nine-years-old. But when he began his career, he was one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Caribbean marks the birthplace of tons of cultural fixtures that are widely enjoyed around the world, and one of its most ...

If it sounds like soca, and makes you dance like soca – is it still definitely soca music? The success of the carnival song, Differentology, by the artist Bunji Garlin has spurred public debate about ...

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 ...

In our newly minted FADER Five column, we ask the artists and producers orbiting our universe to riff on a theme and serve up five gems of their choosing. Former FADER cover star Machel Montano has ...

From Trinidad and Tobago, soca group KestheBand brings the island to the Tiny Desk — smiles, waving flags, whining and all.

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 ...

When I think about how soca music makes me feel, I beam from the inside. Charge it to my Trinidadian roots, but whenever a big “chune” plays (old or new) my eyes close, hands go up, head tilts back ...

The Kes the Band frontman checks in with Billboard at the 2026 Saint Lucia Jazz & Arts Festival. Get all the details.