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 ...
A musical stew made up of the deeply flavorful ingredients of the wildly different styles of Soca and Chutney music, which incorporates Hindi lyrics and Indian instruments most typically the dholak, ...
THE annual Chutney Soca Monarch competition takes place on January 20 at the RIG, San Fernando, with 33 artistes having qualified for what is now considered the “most important stage for the Indo ...
Cheville Samoedj, professionally known as ChevoBeatz, is a Dutch music producer creating genre-bending works that combine Soca, Chutney, Reggae, Dancehall, Hip Hop, Trap, Zouk, and Calypso. The ...
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 ...
Known as one of the Caribbean’s purest carnivals, Grenada’s renowned Spicemas is a global and local preserver of carnival tradition, history and music in the wider West Indian region. Primarily ...
WHEN Jason Sookram first launched www.chutneymusic.com in 2018, he wanted it to be a pre-eminent resource for the chutney music artform and its artistes. Misson accomplished. The website not only ...
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 ...