Every year, millions of ecstatic people fill the streets of cities like Rio de Janeiro, Barranquilla, New Orleans, and Port-of-Spain, Trinidad to celebrate Carnival. Traditionally, the public parties ...

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 ...

If you're going to be anywhere near Trinidad and Tobago for Carnival 2017, you'll be swivelling your hips and shaking your waist to some amazing music. I've talked about five of the best soca tunes on ...

In 2006, a young student named Ryan Alexander uploaded a mix of soca tunes to Facebook from his dorm room in Miami, Florida. Today, the 33-year-old is known as Private Ryan to the global soca ...