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 ...

Singer Ricardo Drue, a star in the world of soca music, has died. He was 38. Drue's death was confirmed in a post on the singer's official Instagram page Tuesday. A cause of death was not given.

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 ...

If you haven’t heard of soca music by now, you’re about to get a full dose of it in 2020 and beyond! This electrifying genre of music can be described as “jump-up music.” It combines East Indian and ...

On a Friday night last February, a singer in a gold lamé suit and matching kufi stepped off a throne to pounding drums and a loud chanting of his name. As Olatunji performed his single “Ola,” dancers ...

Three of Trinidad's buzziest soca acts chat with Billboard about the genre's future ahead of 2025 Carnival. By Kyle Denis If there’s a current “big three” when it comes to different styles of ...

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 ...

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, ...

Right on the heels of Trinidad Carnival - where she mounted the sixth iteration of her own Sokah Origins concert - Caribbean ...

Soca music is not for the faint at heart. The Trinidadian genre is calypso's faster, raunchier, studio-driven wayward child; the word comes from "soul of calypso," and the genre was inaugurated in the ...

If there’s a current “big three” when it comes to different styles of Caribbean music, it’s probably reggae, dancehall and soca. Between Buju Banton’s Stateside return and Vybz Kartel’s release from ...