US-based so­ca artiste Ani­ka Berry is a fi­nal­ist in the Ul­ti­mate So­ca Cham­pi­on with her hit Sad­dle on the Tilden Hall Rid­dem.

“I write you these words not know­ing whether you will re­ceive them, when you will re­ceive them, and whether I will still be alive when you read them …”

Ba­jan so­ca artiste Ru­pee’s (Ru­pert Clarke) Tempt­ed to Touch has been cer­ti­fied gold by the Record­ing In­dus­try As­so­ci­a­tion of Amer­i­ca (RI­AA).

It was a mu­si­cal trip down mem­o­ry lane at Ca­lyp­so Spek­taku­la Thru The Years 43rd An­niver­sary 1982-2025 at NA­PA in Port-of-Spain on Wednes­day.

Makin’ a state­ment has al­ways been the mu­si­cal mis­sion for rap­so col­lec­tive 3canal. Since their de­but in 1997 with the clas­sic song Blue, 3canal’s mu­si­cal state­ments have been flavoured with com­men­tary—so­cial and po­lit­i­cal. From Salt to Talk Yuh Talk to Ben Li­on, 3canal’s mu­sic has been known for pi­cong and satire pep­pered with plen­ty fire and right­eous ire.

So­ca fans in San­gre Grande were treat­ed to an un­for­get­table night when Kes The Band took the stage for the first time at Ce­les­tia En­chant­ed in the East on Feb­ru­ary 1. The en­er­gy was elec­tric as Kes de­liv­ered a high-pow­ered per­for­mance, thrilling the crowd with hit af­ter hit.

Ac­com­pa­ny­ing Ira Math­ur in the pre­sen­ta­tion of her mem­oir, Love the Dark Days, at the Jaipur Lit­er­ary Fes­ti­val.

The NCC’s Car­ni­val is Fash­ion Too took place at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah on Feb­ru­ary 9, trans­form­ing the his­toric venue in­to a stage where fash­ion met fes­tiv­i­ty. The event aimed to so­lid­i­fy lo­cal fash­ion as an in­te­gral part of Car­ni­val, show­cas­ing de­sign­ers’ artistry while ho­n­our­ing the fes­ti­val’s cul­tur­al ta­pes­try.

The 2025 Road March Cham­pi­on may have giv­en a stel­lar per­for­mance at Eti­enne Charles’ show Road March 2. In a cast full of stars, on­ly one per­former re­al­ly and tru­ly turned the Winifred Al­fred au­di­to­ri­um at Queen’s Hall, St Ann's, in­to a fete.

Ru­bidari Vic­tor’s ex­hi­bi­tion, Anan­si and The In­fi­nite Jou­vay, ran from Jan­u­ary 23-29 at the LOFTT Gallery on Ros­ali­no Street, Wood­brook. It in­clud­ed paint­ings, post­cards, prints, T-shirts, and dolls.

Wis­er words have been spo­ken at a fête than when the so­ca monk, Machel Mon­tano, in­struct­ed par­ty­go­ers to pock­et their mo­bile phones so they could free their hands to jump and wave.

Vanes­sa Headley-Brew­ster is the first fe­male arranger to cap­ture a ti­tle in the Na­tion­al Panora­ma Small Con­ven­tion­al Steel Or­ches­tra cat­e­go­ry twice.