Latest Release
- SEP 13, 2024
- 2 Songs
- Famalay - Single · 2019
- Big Bad Soca - Single · 2017
- Hard Fete - Single · 2022
- Soca Gold 2013 · 2013
- Carnival Contract - Single · 2023
- Entering Greenzland - Single · 2023
- Skrillex and Diplo present Jack Ü · 2015
- Soca Gold 2014 · 2014
- Get Soca 2024 · 2024
- Bicycle Ride (Soca Remix) - Single · 2016
Albums
Music Videos
- 2017
- 2016
Artist Playlists
- No one starts a party quite like this soca king.
- 2024
More To Hear
- Soca trailblazers Bunji Garlin and Fay-Ann Lyons check in.
About Bunji Garlin
Even the biggest soca hits in Trinidad and Tobago can have a short life span amid the competitive intensity of annual Carnival celebrations. But Trinidadian star Bunji Garlin scored a soca anthem for the ages in the form of 2012’s “Differentology (Ready for the Road)”—a stripped-down, chant-worthy ode to partying that’s just one of many examples of how Garlin has reinvigorated the homegrown genre. Garlin was born Ian Antonio Alvarez in July 1978 in the borough of Arima, where he first took the plunge as a performer at local events in the late ’90s. Adopting his stage name to evoke the flexibility of a bungee cord and the power of a gun, he soon started competing in annual music competitions around Carnival season, and his intense, synth-heavy fusion of soca and ragga earned him four International Soca Monarch titles starting in 2002. His audience grew beyond the Caribbean with the success of “Differentology,” and in 2015 he took a step into glossy EDM territory with the Skrillex and Diplo collab “Jungle Bae.” For all of Garlin’s outgoing ideas, though, he’s always hewed closely to his Carnival roots—as evidenced by the traditional percussion and fraternal message of the 2019 single “Famalay.”
- HOMETOWN
- Sangre Grande, Trinidad
- BORN
- July 14, 1978
- GENRE
- Reggae