| Gone are the days when the BamBoo Club on Toronto's trendy Queen Street held sole sway over calypso and soca artists. |
| Trinidad reverberates to soca, and Martinique to the racing double beat of zouk. |
| Undoubtedly, the largest single leap in calypso evolution came with the 1973 debut of soca music. |
| Growing up, he listened to the up-tempo sounds of calypso, soca, and zouk, before moving to St Maarten and discovering reggae. |
| The very emergence of soca is a tribute to Indian percussion instruments, particularly tabla, dholak, dhantal and jhanj. |
| Combette's music is hard to describe concisely, but there's Haitian compas, zouk, folk, jazz, bossa nova, soca and reggae in the mix. |