Soca is the abbreviation for the Caribbean soul-calypso style perfected by musicians in Trinidad and Tobago. By Billboard Staff Soca is the abbreviation for the Caribbean soul-calypso style perfected ...

For those who couldn't make it to carnival in Trinidad and Tobago, VP Records has once again performed a public service by collecting all the soca (soul-calypso) hits from carnival season in a two-CD… ...

Calypsoul 70 reflects the incredible melting pot of the Caribbean by collecting tracks recorded in the funky 70s from throughout the region. Save this story Save this story Decades ago it was common ...

The season opened for me with a kind of unintended back-in-times salute to a period so far distant that key people then in the news and then reporting the news are now deceased. It happened when I saw ...

Believe me, I love Caribbean Calypso dearly. I mean sweet, simple, witty, cleverly-constructed and arranged Kaiso – whether the “Big Yard“ or Tent Versions and from the Extempo to the Soca-free ...

Musical tradition has decided that Trinidad and Tobago is the “home” of the Calypso, that art-form that once outsiders defined as “a West Indian Song.” The origins of calypso are somewhat varied but a ...