Michael Mondezie

“Mich, why don’t you do soca?”Michelle Abraham gets asked that question quite often.In a soca-dominated music ecosystem, she understands why. She does not feel pressured by it, she insists. In

Three years after getting his own unlikely shot at calypso’s biggest title, Ta’zyah O’Connor is opening the door for other undiscovered singers.O’Connor was just 20 when he entered the National

SOME people know they need help. Some have even been referred to a therapist. Still, they never walk through the door.Maia Labastide has seen that reluctance first-hand.After completing her Master

COLLEGE BOY JESSE’S Lennox Stewart Foundation has helped more than 40 students prepare for the September 7 start of the new school year through a back-to-school initiative.The drive was supported

TWENTY-THREE years is a long time for the lyrics of a song to hold true. For Khori “Ziggy Ranking” Francis, that is both beautiful and concerning.

Singer-songwriter Stef Kalloo says the pressure she has felt as a woman to measure her life against personal and societal benchmarks eventually became too heavy to carry.Now she is putting

Aaron Fresh (Aaron Hinton-Marshall) was still young when doors many aspiring artistes spend a lifetime knocking on suddenly swung open.There was Nick Cannon in his corner, major-label backing and international

The march to Carnival 2027 has started on Piccadilly Street.Hitmaker Anson Pro’s (Anson Soverall) groovy soca project, Piccadilly Street Riddim, is topping the playlist of soca fans ahead of the

“Shush!”Sometimes one defiant word is enough to quiet the noise of a doubting world.For Rochelle Chedz, that title of her Carnival 2027 groovy soca collab with the hitmaking Madlypso duo

“Shush!”Sometimes one defiant word is enough to quiet the noise of a doubting world.For Rochelle Chedz, that title of her Carnival 2027 groovy soca collab with the hitmaking Madlypso duo