Weblog for Caribbean music - Soca, Calypso, Pan and Carnival Culture - Est. 2003
Digicel’s newest Rising Star is the dominican Tarina Simon. She competed with Antiguan Daina Barnes, as crowd favourite from early on in the competition and walked away with 10 000 US$ and a recording deal with CRS Music.
The “reveal show” featured last year’s winner Kyron Baptiste who perfomed together with Peter Ram Ram’s tune ”Woman By my Side”.
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Although carnival in Montserrat is no summer carnival but is celebrated between Christmas and New Year there are Soca-related news from the island’s 2005/06 Soca Monarch Scrappy.
The promissing son of the island, who also became Junior Calypso Monarch twice before he left Montserrat, currently resides in London where he is just about to release his third album „Soca Is Life”. And this only days after his second solo album „Dreams Are Reality” became available at all major download stores like iTunes, Napster, Juno and many more, after signing contracts with Europe’s biggest Soca label Faluma Digital.
The young artist who just turned age 25 last week, is not only singing but is also writing and producing most of his tunes and runs his own production label called Danger 1 Productions. By being such an all-rounder Garvin „Scrappy” Johnson qualified to be one of the fresh and upcoming artists distributed digitally by Faluma, beside many big names like Krosfyah, Mastamind, El-A-Kru and Madd.
Technorati Tags: soca monarch monserratNot many of you might have heard of Malo. Marlon ‘Malo’ Webster is the reigning 2007 Carib Soca Monarch of Guyana. He took the title this year on Sunday 18 February with the song “Give it to me”. According to our knowledge he has no web presence, but we have two video clips for you:
Malo’s Soca Monarch show
Malo live at Soca Storm on May 19 2007
Soca artist Shammi, famous for the “Soca Bhangra” tune with Bunji Garlin, is working on new material. Some of his new tunes will be heard this carnival. Other productions lead to the international market: His work with King Heartbeat Productions is being released in Japan next month and there is interest from a producer in Poland to do some collaborative work and distribution.
Get your free Shammi tune now [mp3/3,2MB]
Mistah Shak just released his new tune called “Bombing”, which is dealing with terrorist attacks all over the world. Voiced on a new riddim entitled “De Showdown Riddim” produced by Orin “Octane” Wilson (Riccochet Productions), who is working on a riddim compilation with tunes by other artistes. Vocal Production was done by Shawn Da Ma$tamind Noel.
Although Mistah Shak has contributed music to the carnival seasons, he’s working on music which is not linked to festivals:
“If we want our music to reach to greater levels, we need to take the chance and start putting out good music all the time, at any time it feels right. There is no other genre of music in the world that is confined to being released depending on any particular festival or occasion. So this was just our attempt at putting out what we think is a good, timely song, dealing with a very serious, global,social issue.”
What can we expect in the near future? Mistah Shak is recording new tunes with his brother,”Da Ma$tamind”,”Octane” and Daryl Braxton. He and Duranty, founding members of “Surgeon Blade Panel”, are exploring ways to put an full album together.
The NY based soca singer Jandy just finished the Roadmix by Outbreak Productions of her blazin’ track “Ah Little Bit”, which was originally produced by Drew Sutherland of St Vincent.
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Listeners of St. Vincent’s Hot97 already know it: “You dont’ know” by Karen Veira, which had massive airplay over the last weeks. The slow jam tune is the debut release of the 18-year-old songstress outa St. Vincent.
Produced by the man Kubiyashi and Non-Fiction Recordings, who gave us the strongest riddim for this summer so far, the Lava Slide Riddim.
[listen]
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