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 ...

Go anywhere in the United States and odds are somebody, somewhere is doing a celebration for the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. The art form that was born in the Bronx, however, is not the only ...

Some artists break through with their very first single; others go their entire careers unheard. Trinidad Killa, who’s been in the music industry for a quarter-century now, got his long-overdue break ...

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, ...

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.

2025 has been around for less than two weeks, and Machel Montano is already making history. On Monday (Jan. 13), the Trinidadian music icon treated NPR's Tiny Desk series to its very first soca set.