Parade crowns winners: Luv Lux Mas won Best Troupe and Secrets Mas took top cultural honors in the Grand Parade, drawing large crowds through Philipsburg. Fresh soca releases: Artists including Blaze, ...

In 2006, a young student named Ryan Alexander uploaded a mix of soca tunes to Facebook from his dorm room in Miami, Florida. Today, the 33-year-old is known as Private Ryan to the global soca ...

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 ...