From dazzling costumes to exuberant parties ... a musician known as the "King of Soca" and a superstar in the carnival world. "Clothes are personal things, especially for somebody like Machel ...

CLAUDETTE WARNER’S world was a swirling tapestry of colour and imagination, her small hands wielding a brush like a maestro ...

Three of Trinidad's buzziest soca acts chat with Billboard ... s Stink & Dutty Mas and the extravagant costumes of Pretty Mas, Trinidad Carnival also incorporates traditional elements steeped ...

Six takeaways from another energy-filled Carnival season in Trinidad, home to the Caribbean's biggest bacchanal.

According to historian (and soca star) Hollis Liverpool ... I met in her apartment on the Sunday before carnival. For John, it was all about the costume. She modeled the one she would wear ...

I was greeted by brash dancehall, slow reggae, sweet soca and the unique ... and build community. “When Carnival first started, there were big large-scale costumes, technical sculpture pieces ...

Hundreds of people parade in extravagant, colourful costumes and dance on carnival floats which drive ... playing everything from reggae, soca and calypso, the traditional music of Trinidad ...

Brush1 and Franco delivered one soca after another ... One highlight of the evening was that two lucky patrons won Carnival costumes courtesy of GenXS in association with Smirnoff.