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Soca

Trinidad's carnival engine

Soca is die karnavalmusiek van Trinidad en Tobago Tobago vinniger en meer percussief as die katipso waaruit dit gegroei het en vir die padtog gebou is. Dit is die geluid van Karibiese karnaval oor die eilande en die diaspora.

Origin & history

Soca developed in Trinidad in the 1970s, with the Trinidadian musician Lord Shorty — later Ras Shorty I — widely credited as its originator, fusing calypso with the Indian-Caribbean rhythms of the island.

It became the engine of carnival in Trinidad and then across the Caribbean and its diaspora, with carnivals in London, Toronto, New York and Miami built around it.

Onleesbare kunstenaars

Here Shorty (Ras Korty I)

Trinidad se musikant het oor die algemeen in die 1970 ' s aan die ontstaan van soca toegeskryf.

Mahel Montano

Trinidad se soca - kunstenaar, ' n sentrale figuur in die genre se moderne karnavalera.

Waar dit woon

Waar hierdie kunstenaars vandaan kom

74 Soca Kunstenaars is op TimTim.Live, en 71 van hulle het ' n openbare tuisdorp. Hier kom hulle vandaan.

Lande

Stede en plekke

Party van die kunstenaars

Vrae & Antwoorde

What is soca?+

Soca is the carnival dance music of Trinidad and Tobago — faster and more percussive than calypso, and written for the road march.

How is soca different from calypso?+

Soca grew out of calypso but is faster, more rhythm-driven and built for dancing rather than for calypso's storytelling and social commentary.

Where did soca come from?+

Trinidad and Tobago, in the 1970s.

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