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 ...

Soca lovers stood out in heavy downpours for hours jumping and waving to Shurwayne Winchester and the Traffik Band as they performed hit after hit last week. Hott 107.5 presented the Open De Gate Cup ...

Soca imbues the listener with a sense of freedom and puckish abandon, but for those that make a living off it, the genre’s never-ending fête can sometimes be creatively limiting. The annual carnival ...

Amid the brightly colored feathers, beads and rhinestones, the heavy drum beats of soca music will be heard throughout the Scioto Mile this weekend. On Saturday, the second annual Columbus Caribbean ...

THE BULL, THE LEGEND RETURNS! Gregory Gumbs Roars Back After 40 Years — Reviving the Golden Age of Small–Island Soca In the mid-1980s, during what music historians now call the Golden Era of Small ...

Carnival season on the Caribbean island of Trinidad boils down to one thing: fresh soca music. Consider it Red Bull for your ears, or music with a purpose. "The intention of the energy of soca music ...

Ricardo Drue, a soca singer renowned in his native Antigua and Barbuda and among the Caribbean community around the world, died Tuesday. He was 38. “On behalf of Ricardo Drue’s fiancé, children, ...

Soca music fans subsist in a feast-or-famine world. Feasts come during Carnival — especially Trinidad Carnival, king of them all — when the exuberant, dance-driven tunes are released faster than soca ...

Soca and reggae star Biggie Irie will refresh his love for Bermuda when he returns to perform at the John Lennon tribute concert in the Botanical Gardens on September 21.The Barbados singer, who ...