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In a year without Carnival, soca artists still made 2020 theirs

In a year without Carnival, soca artists still made 2020 theirs
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In a year without Carnival, soca artists still made 2020 theirs

Sean Drakes/Getty Images.   With lockdowns and travel bans devastating the live music industry last year, musicians across the world turned to online performances and streaming platforms to make up the numbers. But for soca, a genre so inextricably linked to the crowd-packed events of Carnival, the stakes are different. Carnival celebrations across the Caribbean — and across the world — saw cancellations last year, affecting entire ecosystems of costume designers, vendors, party promoters, DJs, producers, and artists. And though it seemed, in that first rash of cancellations, like the virus might be under control by the fall, Trinidad & Tobago’s Carnival, its vibrant, closing road march scheduled to take place yesterday, was inevitably canceled as well.

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It’s December 27 and that means two things: many stomachs are recovering from overindulgence during the past two days and soca fans everywhere are jumping on social media platforms to check out new releases. Traditionally T&T’s Carnival started yesterday, Boxing Day. At least the mass local and international interest in the new sounds of the upcoming festival season. And while, sadly, the ongoing global pandemic has added Carnival Monday and Tuesday (February 15 and 16) to its daily growing list of victims, the innate need to fete remains alive in every beating Carnival lover’s heart. Thankfully and perhaps mercifully their “soca warriors” have not abandoned them in their greatest hour of need. New soca releases have been aplenty in recent months, fuelling a series of virtual online events—and not so legal Covid-19-regulaitons-breaching “zesser” and “wesser” fetes leading up to T&T’s highly anticipated virtual Carnival 2021 sh

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