Soca Queen
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Soca Queen is the debut album by soca
artist Alison Hinds
. It was released on physical formats in Canada on October 16, 2007, having been made available on iTunes
on 9 October. It was released in the Caribbean later that year.
The album features the hit single "Roll It Gal", and includes the songs "Ladies Rule" and "Faluna" which date from Hinds' time as singer of the band Square One
. "Thundah" was also released as a single. Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times
described it as "a winsome CD, full of breezy songs that emphasize the genre’s links to both Afro-pop (those bass lines!) and Euro-trance (those synthesizers!)".
Soca music
Soca is a style of music from Trinidad and Tobago. Soca is a musical development of traditional Trinidadian calypso, through loans from the 1960s onwards from predominantly black popular music....
artist Alison Hinds
Alison Hinds
Alison Hinds is a Bajan female soca artist based in the Caribbean island of Barbados. She is one of the most popular soca singers in the world and has been given the nickname the "Queen of Soca".-Biography:...
. It was released on physical formats in Canada on October 16, 2007, having been made available on iTunes
ITunes
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on 9 October. It was released in the Caribbean later that year.
The album features the hit single "Roll It Gal", and includes the songs "Ladies Rule" and "Faluna" which date from Hinds' time as singer of the band Square One
Square One (band)
Square One are a Barbadian soca band, formed in December 1986. They continued until 2005, splitting up after singer Alison Hinds left the group. They re-formed in 2010.-History:...
. "Thundah" was also released as a single. Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
described it as "a winsome CD, full of breezy songs that emphasize the genre’s links to both Afro-pop (those bass lines!) and Euro-trance (those synthesizers!)".
Tracklisting
- "The More" - 4:38
- "Faluma" - 3:58
- "Roll It GalRoll It Gal-J-Status version:Shontelle and Sheldon Benjamin, the composers of "Roll It Gal" re-wrote and re-produced the song for the band J-Status, changing the lyrics from being about female empowerment to more sexual lyrics, re-titling the song to "Roll It." The J-Status version is taken from their debut...
" - 4:01 - "Thundah" - 3:25
- "Blazin'" - 4:44
- "Island Girl" - 4:20
- "Caution" - 3:56
- "Ladies Rule" - 4:18
- "My Space" - 4:05
- "Good Morning" - 3:33
- "The Show" - 3:40
- "In The Name Of Love" - 4:17
- "Soca Nation" - 3:46
- "Togetherness" - 4:20
- "Roll It Gal" (Rishi Rich Remix) - 3:26