Montserrat Soca Artiste Black Jaguar

Earlier in the year, I did an interview with Tynisha Leon the Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Dasheen Magazine. Below, is an excerpt from that interview recently published:

How did you become a bonafide Soca man? What brought you to the craft?

I like that… Bonafide Soca Man. Well, Arrow has died and gone, but he was and is the King of Soca. Arrow is from Montser­rat. I grew up see­ing Arrow as a lit­tle boy walk­ing up and down the street. I grew up in that sort of envi­ron­ment with Soca music run­ning through my veins. Just like some­one else grew up on Milk and honey, I grew up on Soca music. I used to have the fan­tasy of being on stage per­form­ing Soca music. I would be mak­ing up songs in my mind and imag­in­ing myself per­form­ing. I always knew that I loved Soca music and that I wanted to per­form it. I always stayed in touch with it.

It wasn’t until the early to mid 2000’s, when I got involved. I was liv­ing in Orlando, Florida. I knew a DJ–DJ Go from Panama. He had his own record­ing stu­dio and he used to arrange music. I worked in Soft­ware engi­neer­ing. I went in to help him move some stuff. He put on some beats. Unbe­knownst to me he actu­ally recorded a ses­sion of me singing. I started lis­ten­ing and I didn’t know who the per­son was and I loved it. And he said it’s you. That moment gave me a vision of what was pos­si­ble. We wrote and recorded my first sin­gle that same night: When you see me give me some. Maybe a year later we did One Eye Open. We had all these songs we were record­ing and then we said let’s put out an album. That was how I was discovered.

To read the full article, check out the article titled: Enter Black Jaguar. Sweet Soca Alone! And oh yeah, be sure to comment and share with fellow soca lovers!

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