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Alphonsus Celestine Edmund Cassell MBE (16 November 1949 [1] – 15 September 2010), known mononymously as Arrow, was a Montserratian calypso and soca musician, regarded as the first superstar of soca from Montserrat. [2]
Soca singer Ricardo Drue, who was acclaimed in his native Antigua and Barbuda and across the Caribbean diaspora, died Tuesday at age 38.
He joined the band Clymax in 1969. In 1996, he became the first Soca Monarch. He was known as the "Rolls-Royce of Calypso"; according to Bernard "Bonni" Browne, the leader of Clymax, Soso received this title from radio host Randy D. [5] In 2014, Soso was named a cultural ambassador for St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
[4] Shadow' innovative use of the melodic bassline in "Bassman" was a harbinger of things to come with the emerging soca music style that would transform calypso in the mid-1970s. [7] Shadow is also known for his unique dance in which he jumped to the tempo of his music in "skip-rope style" with both feet in the air at the same 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. His spouse is Fay-Ann Lyons. [2]
Kenny J was born on Prince of Wales Street, in San Fernando [3] on 15 July 1952 [8] and attended St. Benedict's College. [1] He retired from the Police Service with the rank of Assistant Superintendent.
Crazy was the first artist to sing a "Parang Soca" song (mixing soca and hymnal Latin music) in 1978. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] His debut album, Crazy's Super Album , was released in 1979 and sold over 35,000 copies in his home country.
Rupee emerged on the local soca scene after being invited to join the then popular Bajan band, Coalishun, along with singers like Terencia Coward and Adrian Clarke in 1997. Though initially more dancehall oriented, Rupee would find himself settling into the soca genre, a genre indigenous to Trinidad and Tobago. This was marked by the release of ...