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Soca singer Ricardo Drue, who was acclaimed in his native Antigua and Barbuda and across the Caribbean diaspora, died Tuesday at age 38.
Rupert Clarke (born September 10, 1975), best known by his stage name Rupee, is a soca musician from Barbados. [1] [2] He was born in the military barracks in Germany to a German mother and a Bajan father, who was serving in the British Armed Forces at the time.
Ian Antonio Alvarez [1] (born July 14, 1978), better known by his stage name Bunji Garlin, is a Trinidadian ragga soca artist. He is also affectionately known as the Viking of Soca. He is also affectionately known as the Viking of Soca.
This is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in 2024.
Denyse Burnadette Kirline Plummer HBM (8 November 1953 – 27 August 2023) [1] was a Trinidadian calypsonian and gospel singer. The child of a white father and a black mother, she initially faced significant prejudice in a genre traditionally seen as Afro-Caribbean, but was eventually recognised as a leading calypso performer.
“What soca does have that a lot of music doesn’t have is a feel good element,” said multiplatinum Jamaican recording artist Shaggy. “It is a feel good genre. When people play soca, they ...
Timothy Watkins, better known by his stage name Baron, is a Trinidadian singer and songwriter. He is known for many soca/calypso songs from the 80s, such as "Sweet Soca Man", "Doh Rock It So" and "Melosian Rhapsody" as well as the 2009 hit "Spanish Woman".
In 1987, his soca song "Thunder" was awarded the Road March prize. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Pope died on 14 January 2009, aged 76, in St. Clair ( Port-of-Spain ), Trinidad and Tobago of myelofibrosis , which he had been battling for five years.