Fondly known as “Papi,” Cape was a cultural institution. When Steel Talks, a website dedicated to steelpan music and history, once noted, “If you remove [Cape] from the time-line, his significant and ...

Drummers perform during Carnival in Trinidad. Thundering. Clangoring. The air around me throbs and shatters with the sound of steel pans. I'm in Queen's Park Savannah, a big patch of green in the ...

The Caribbean region is noted for a festive ambiance all year round, so the holidays always turn up the partying a notch. Every island has its own traditions with holiday food and music but Trinidad ...

Trinidadian rapper and BET Award Winner Nicki Minaj has unveiled her latest music video ‘Pound the Alarm’ as a cinematic tribute to her homeland’s natural beauty, Carnival, and culture. The video, ...

Some artists break through with their very first single; others go their entire careers unheard. Trinidad Killa, who’s been in the music industry for a quarter-century now, got his long-overdue break ...

The University of Tennessee at Martin Percussion Studio participated in a travel-study overseas in early January. The group had the opportunity to merge cultures in Trinidad and Tobago, Jan. 4-11, as ...

Nicki Minaj may rep hard for Southside Jamaica Queens, New York, but the “Super Freaky Girl” rapper’s first home was the Caribbean country of Trinidad And Tobago. The record-holding recording artist ...

To Trinidad and Tobago, Brother Resistance was much more than an artistic icon; he was a fount of cultural knowledge. With his passing at a private hospital on July 13 (he had been ailing for some ...

The health minister of Trinidad and Tobago challenged Nicki Minaj’s claim about a cousin’s friend who suffered swollen testicles as a result of the Covid-19 vaccine, noting that — after an exhaustive ...

Thundering. Clangoring. The air around me throbs and shatters with the sound of steel pans. I'm in Queen's Park Savannah, a big patch of green in the heart of Port of Spain, capital of the island ...