We Are One People: Soca Stars Including Machel Montano Highlight Caribbeans Connection To Africa

Trinidad and Tobago and its neighbors mix music genres in a fast-growing transatlantic artistic exchange It was the wee hours of carnival on Saturday when the soca legend Machel Montano and Nigerian American Afrobeats superstar Davido took to the stage in Port of Spain. By then, the audience of thousands had already been partying for hours, but when the two launched into their hit song , the crowd erupted. This years carnival which included the and two days of hardcore reveling highlighted a growing trend of collaboration between artists from and the , with musicians exploring the common threads of their cultural heritage at a time when the campaign for reparations has brought about a closer look at historical ties.