Topic Tag: soca

Embark, Music, Reviews

Playlist (Jan/Feb 2019) | Music reviews

This month’s listening picks, with reviews of the latest by Keba; 5OH8 + KVL; and Tebby

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Immerse, Music, St. Lucia

Dennery Style | Backstory

If you have ears to listen at Carnival time, you’ve heard Dennery Segment, even if you don’t know the name. Laura Dowrich explores the roots of the soca genre originating in a small village in St Lucia

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Immerse, Music, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Jeanine De Bique: “It doesn’t matter where you come from” | Own words

Jeanine De Bique, Trinidad-born classical singer, on the influence of her upbringing, and why Trinis “could do anything” — as told to Caroline Taylor

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Immerse, Music, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Nailah Blackman: welcome to the evolution | Snapshot

With music in her bloodline, T&T’s Nailah Blackman was almost destined for a career behind the microphone. She was the breakthrough performer of Carnival 2017, still a teenager — but, as she tells Laura Dowrich-Phillips, her ambitions go beyond soca, to another stage of musical evolution

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Music, Festivals and Events, St. Kitts and Nevis

The Basseterre beat

From the air, the island of St Kitts resembles a guitar serenely afloat in the shimmering Caribbean sea. It’s a fitting venue for a...

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Music, People, Barbados

Alison Hinds: sweet & sexy

Standing before the microphone in a slinky evening gown, her voice soft and silky, she sings a Spanish love song. Her trademark plait...

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Leisure, Travel, Lifestyle, Antigua and Barbuda

Living the life: a guide to Antigua and Barbuda

The sun is going down as the plane swoops low over St John’s towards the airport. Its golden light washes Antigua’s rolling hills, the...

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Film and Television, United States

Gimme tempo

MTV Tempo, the American music channel’s foray into the Caribbean market, was launched in October to cable markets across the Caribbean,...

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