Desi Trini chutney soca singer Sharlene Boodram lives up to her last name in her video for ‘Sweeta Sweeta’:

Sharlene started singing at the young age of 8, and has shared the stage with top calypsonians and the maestro Lord Kitchener, whom she credits with much of her success. [Link]

The 24-year-old artiste and recent University of Miami master’s degree graduate is completing the first part of her five-album contract… [she] will try to appeal to an international audience with the next two… the lyrics might be less Trinidadian. “This one was a little too Caribbean,” she said. “If you want to go world, you can’t use our dialect…” [Link]

German-Barbadian soca singer Rupee’s moniker is a contraction of ‘Rupert Clarke,’ but it’s also a hat tip to Caribbean desis. You’ve probably heard his megahit ‘Tempted to Touch’ floating around the ether:

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