Trinidad Carnival is a way of life steeped in history and fueled by an infectious energy that takes over the streets. If you’re planning to experience it for the first time, a little preparation will ...

Trinidad’s Carnival grips the island with an energy unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. From the moment you arrive, you’ll feel it: the beat of the soca music vibrating through your body, the ...

French settlers introduced Carnival to Trinidad in 1785, staging annual pre-Lenten masquerade balls. Their African slaves quickly adopted it, staging their own pre-Lenten celebrations but mainly ...

It is rejuvenation and political expression, an explosion of color and costumes moving to the pulsating rhythms of steel pan drums and Calypso and soca rhymes as people across the Caribbean celebrate ...

Hip-hop isn't the only cultural movement celebrating its golden anniversary this year; soca, the up-tempo, propulsive descendant of calypso created in Trinidad and embraced across the Caribbean ...

What began with Lord Shorty's song "Indrani" in 1973 has evolved considerably since – to follow along, here's a playlist with a song for every... Hip-hop isn't the only cultural movement celebrating ...