(Trinidad Guardian) Ricardo “Daddy Chinee” Melville is the 2023 Chutney Soca Monarch, while breakout performer, nine-year-old Katelin Sultan is the new Queen of Chutney. Melville copped the $400,000 ...

CARNIVAL music lovers have an alternative to the National Chutney Soca Monarch competition which has been moved from San Fernando to Port of Spain this year. In response to the decision to relocate ...

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Raymond Ramnarine and Mitesh ‘DJ Desiblue’ Prahalath energise the packed venue with their electric performance. Photo: Yolanda van der Stoep The atmosphere was electric at Emperors Palace’s centre ...

A musical stew made up of the deeply flavorful ingredients of the wildly different styles of Soca and Chutney music, which incorporates Hindi lyrics and Indian instruments most typically the dholak, ...

Guyana is home. It will always be my home even though I have spent over twenty-five years away from its homely embrace. I have made, nonetheless, regular annual and bi-annual visits since departing ...

The National Carnival Chutney Soca Monarcha new competition launched to fill the void caused by the shifting of the Chutney Soca Monarch finals from Skinner Park, San Fernando, to Queen's Park Oval, ...

An arts documentary examining the phenomenon of chutney soca a musical hybrid from Trinidad Tobago which blends the traditions of the islands two biggest ethnic groups Indian and African As much ...

On a Friday night last February, a singer in a gold lamé suit and matching kufi stepped off a throne to pounding drums and a loud chanting of his name. As Olatunji performed his single “Ola,” dancers ...