Caribbean Heat blazes onward with an instalment guaranteed to make you stomp your feat as you wine and grind. This week’s edition of our favourite series focuses on the Road March competition of Trinidad & Tobago and the songs that defined many of the Carnival festivals of the last 25 years!
After weeks of building anticipation caused by several behind the scenes glimpses at her new video for ‘Pound the Alarm’, Nicki Minaj has finally debuted the visual. However, the Pop act wasn’t the only star of the clip; she was joined by Soca music leaders Machel Montano, Bunji Garlin and Fay-Ann Lyons.
Nicki Minaj returned to her homeland of Trinidad to film her new video for ‘Pound the Alarm’. However, the colourful rapper wasn’t alone as she paraded on the streets alongside a host of Soca music’s biggest stars – Machel Montano, Fay-Ann Lyons and Bunji Garlin.
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 […]