Okay, I admit that I have been ridiculously inconsistent with this Caribbean Heat series but I’d probably get beaten with a steel pan if it wasn’t revived on this incredibly important occasion. Today (August 31st) marks the 50th anniversary of Trinidad & Tobago’s Independence Day!
The Caribbean region is primarily referenced as the home of Jamaica’s billion dollar Reggae and Dancehall music industry but there is another genre that that originated here that has become a major force on the world stage – Soca. Emerging from Trinidad & Tobago in the early 1960s, this artform has exploded into the UK, European and […]