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10 Caribbean Artists to Watch in 2025


From dancehall to soca, here are a few rising Caribbean stars to keep an eye on in 2025.

Reinaldo Marcus Green’s Bob Marley: One Love biopic opened the year with two weeks atop the domestic box office, while its accompanying soundtrack earned a Grammy nomination for best reggae album. Months after walking out of prison a free man after serving 13 years of a now-overturned life sentence for the murder of Clive “Lizard” Williams, Vybz Kartel mounted Freedom Street — the biggest concert Jamaica has seen in almost half a century. Partially inspired by her soca foremothers like Patrice Roberts and Fay-Ann Lyons, “Flowers” — and the other new music she has on the way ahead of the 2025 Carnival season — is the culmination of Leighanne’s years-long journey to stability in the recording industry.

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