Soca music (also known as the soul of calypso) is a genre of Caribbean music that originated within a marginalized subculture in the Trinidad and Tobago in the late 1970s, and developed into a range of styles in the 1980s and later. Soca developed as an offshoot of kaiso/calypso, with influences from cadence, funk andsoul.

Soca has evolved in the last 20 years primarily through musicians from various Anglophone Caribbean countries including Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Grenada,Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, United States Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, The Bahamas,Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Jamaica, Belize and Montserrat. There have also been significant productions from artistes in Venezuela, Canada, Panama, Guatemala, United States, United Kingdom andJapan.