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the soundtrack of letting go, engineered to make hips disobey their owners.
means A genre of upbeat, percussive Caribbean dance music that grew out of calypso, built for carnival and movement.
from The name is a contraction of "soul calypso," coined in Trinidad in the early 1970s — credited to the calypsonian Lord Shorty (Garfield Blackman), who fused calypso's storytelling with the rhythms and drive of soul music. He reportedly first spelled it "sokah" to nod to its Indo-Caribbean influences before the simpler "soca" spelling took hold.
- origin
- Born in 1970s Trinidad from Lord Shorty's mind
- name
- Short for the soul of calypso
- tempo
- Often races past 130 beats per minute
- carnival fuel
- Powers two-day jump-up marathons across the Caribbean
- command music
- Songs literally order you to wave and jump
trinidad and tobago carnival — the annual festival in port of spain where soca music originated and dominates, drawing 2+ million visitors yearly
machel montano — trinidadian soca artist who has dominated the genre since the 1980s and is considered the 'king of soca'
groovy soca competition — annual soca monarch contest held during trinidad carnival since 1974, determining the year's top soca song