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Skinny Fabulous x Machel Montano x Bunji Garlin...
Skinny Fabulous, Machel Montano, Bunji Garlin 5 years 3 months ago • 1,380 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Jammin
Machel Montano, Nine Mind, Lenky Records 5 years 4 months ago • 1,205 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano, Super Blue - Soca Kingdom
Machel Montano, Super Blue 6 years 1 month ago • 992 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Showtime
Machel Montano 6 years 1 month ago • 1,259 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Rough Wine
Machel Montano 6 years 2 months ago • 1,071 Plays Add to favorites -
Turner - She Bad Remix ft. Machel Montano &...
Turner, Machel Montano, Flavour 6 years 2 months ago • 1,141 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Waves
Machel Montano 7 years 3 months ago • 1,595 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano & Bunji Garlin - Buss Head
Machel Montano, Bunji Garlin 7 years 3 months ago • 1,971 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Your Time Now
Machel Montano 7 years 3 months ago • 1,660 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Fast Wine
Machel Montano 7 years 3 months ago • 2,581 Plays Add to favorites -
Charly Black & Machel Montano - VIP Girl
Charly Black, Machel Montano, Troyton Music 7 years 3 months ago • 2,264 Plays Add to favorites -
Patoranking ft. Machel Montano, Wande Coal &...
Machel Montano, Busy Signal 7 years 3 months ago • 1,850 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Wake Up
Machel Montano, Stadic Music, Adigun Productions, Salty Soundz 7 years 4 months ago • 1,579 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Lip Service
Machel Montano 7 years 6 months ago • 2,576 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Temperature (Willy Chin Remix)
Machel Montano 7 years 9 months ago • 1,313 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano ft. Tessanne Chin - Bring the Beat
Machel Montano, Tessanne Chin 7 years 11 months ago • 3,990 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Carnival Groupie (System32...
Machel Montano 8 years 2 months ago • 2,449 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Temperature (Travis World...
Machel Montano 8 years 2 months ago • 2,460 Plays Add to favorites -
Skinny Fabulous & Machel Montano - Go Hard (...
Skinny Fabulous, Machel Montano 8 years 2 months ago • 2,085 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Waiting On The Stage (ft....
Machel Montano 8 years 3 months ago • 2,086 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano & Timaya - Better Than Them (...
Machel Montano, Timaya 8 years 3 months ago • 2,652 Plays Add to favorites -
Pitbull, Lil Jon & Machel Montano - Taxi...
Machel Montano 8 years 3 months ago • 2,818 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano & Tarrus Riley - Memory
Machel Montano, Tarrus Riley 8 years 3 months ago • 3,175 Plays Add to favorites -
Angela Hunte & Machel Montano - Like So
Angela Hunte, Machel Montano 8 years 3 months ago • 2,169 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - In We Blood
Machel Montano 8 years 3 months ago • 2,996 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Temperature
Machel Montano 8 years 3 months ago • 1,527 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Waiting On The Stage (ft....
Machel Montano, Badjohn Republic 8 years 3 months ago • 4,108 Plays Add to favorites -
Runtown - Bend Down Pause (Remix) ft. Wizkid...
Runtown, Wizkid, Machel Montano 8 years 3 months ago • 2,519 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Human
Machel Montano 8 years 4 months ago • 2,637 Plays Add to favorites -
OMI ft. Machel Montano - Hula Hoop [Precision...
OMI, Machel Montano 8 years 4 months ago • 7,446 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Carnival Groupie
Machel Montano 8 years 4 months ago • 4,179 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Road Trip
Machel Montano, AdvoKit Productions 8 years 4 months ago • 2,601 Plays Add to favorites -
Skinny Fabulous & Machel Montano - Go Hard
Skinny Fabulous, Machel Montano 8 years 4 months ago • 1,753 Plays Add to favorites -
Olatunji & Machel Montano - Where I'm...
Olatunji, Machel Montano 8 years 5 months ago • 2,814 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Getting On Bad (Jam Band Riddim)
Machel Montano 8 years 5 months ago • 1,676 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Need It
Machel Montano 8 years 5 months ago • 4,983 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Like Ah Boss (Remix)
Machel Montano 8 years 6 months ago • 1,806 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano ft. Shaggy - Remedy Refix
Machel Montano, Shaggy 9 years 3 months ago • 1,775 Plays Add to favorites -
Angela Hunte & Machel Montano - Party Done
Angela Hunte, Machel Montano 9 years 3 months ago • 2,084 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Play A Mas
Machel Montano 9 years 3 months ago • 1,321 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano & Destra - Come Back
Machel Montano, Destra 9 years 3 months ago • 1,492 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Watching Meh
Machel Montano 9 years 3 months ago • 1,195 Plays Add to favorites -
Chris Martin & Machel Montano - Soak
Chris Martin, Machel Montano 9 years 4 months ago • 1,840 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Remedy
Machel Montano 9 years 4 months ago • 1,551 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Getting On Bad
Machel Montano 9 years 4 months ago • 1,375 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Vibes Cyah Done
Machel Montano 9 years 4 months ago • 1,887 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Endless Wuk
Machel Montano 9 years 6 months ago • 1,585 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - Haunted
Machel Montano 10 years 3 months ago • 1,688 Plays Add to favorites -
Machel Montano - She Coming
Machel Montano 10 years 3 months ago • 1,451 Plays Add to favorites
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- Nicki Minaj drops 'Queen' album5 years 8 months ago • 2,469 viewsKonshens & Machel Montano Featured In Bacardi's New Summer Ad6 years 11 months ago • 1,574 viewsMachel Montano & Bunji Garlin releases new soca single "Buss...7 years 3 months ago • 1,742 viewsMachel Montano and Dloxx releases new soca 2017 single, "Take It...7 years 3 months ago • 1,626 viewsSoca Boss, Machel Montano releases new single titled "Fast Wine...7 years 4 months ago • 1,628 viewsSoca Star, Machel Montano releases new single titled "Wake Up...7 years 5 months ago • 1,022 views
Machel Montano Bio
One of the biggest hits of Trinidad and Tobago's (T&T) Carnival 2008 was Machel Montano's irresistibly upbeat "Blazin D Trail". The song's lyrics capture the effervescence of carnival's climactic street parade while its title provides an accurate summation of Machel's exhaustive musical pursuits. Over the past 26 years, the single constant in Machel's ever changing, stellar career has been his trail blazing approach to T&T's indigenous soca music. Through his various fusions, which include everything from performing with marching bands to collaborating with Grammy winning reggae artists, Machel has worked tirelessly to establish soca, calypso's energetic offshoot, as a viable entity that can impact beyond T&T's internationally renowned carnival celebrations.
Born in Port of Spain, the capital of the oil rich island of Trinidad, on November 24, 1974, Machel has already made great strides in moving soca towards the mainstream. The former child star made history in March 2007 as the first soca artist to sell out two back-to-back shows at New York City's Madison Square Garden and he returned to the Garden on March 28 for another sell out affair. The MSG shows, which earned rave reviews for their innovative use of carnival's elaborate masquerade tradition and seamless incorporation of T&T's various musical strains including calypso, Indian chutney, and the country's national instrument the steel pan, also solidified Machel's reputation as a consummate showman who can dazzle any crowd, anywhere, not just in a carnival setting. "Performing at Madison Square Garden is a goal that I always had," says the soca superstar. "But we didn't just come and sing; we brought the culture of T&T to one of the most prestigious venues in the world."
Now with the release of his 2008 album "Wining Season" Machel continues to blaze the trail, this time with an even hotter fire. The CD's retro flavored title track, produced by Dwain "Dwaingerous" Antrobus, celebrates carnival's unofficial dance, the seductive, pelvic-gyrating movement referred to as "wining". A remix featuring Shaggy made the song one of the biggest hits of the carnival, that is, wining season. "Defense (The Anthem)" is a remix of Cuban-American rapper Pitbull's hit "The Anthem" featuring Machel, Pitbull and Atlanta based "crunk" sensation Lil Jon; enhanced by Machel's distinctly Trinidadian flavor, the song is already making inroads into crossover markets.
While Machel's diversified musical partnerships have helped to broaden soca's appeal, he also consistently celebrates T&T's musical roots. Thus, "Wining Season" includes collaborations with two of T&T's most venerated artists. Machel is joined by the high priest of soca David Rudder on "Oil and Music", which honors two of Trinidad's most valuable commodities and "Congo Man" with calypso legend The Mighty Sparrow is an update of Sparrow's uproariously risqué 1965 classic. Machel wrote all of the CDs thirteen tracks, with eight co-written by Kernal Roberts, the son of calypso icon the late Lord Kitchener, including the carnival 2008 hits "Unconditional Love", "Rollin" featuring rising female singer Patrice Roberts and "Make Love" which boasts Buju Banton on it's hit bound remix.
Soca was created in the mid 70s, when the late Ras Shorty I blended the musical expressions of Trinidad's dominant African and Indian populations and called that fusion the soul of calypso, or soca. Some twenty years later Machel and his band Xtatik modernized soca, injected it with hip-hop beats and dancehall rhythms, and made it palatable to a younger generation. "Before that, young people in Trinidad couldn't relate to anything local," says Machel who became the youngest finalist in the history of carnival's Calypso Monarch competition back in 1986, performing the aptly title "Too Young to Soca". "So I started adding slang, we started producing our own music and saw a big change in the crowds reaction."
Because "Wining Season" is Machel's most versatile album to date, he hopes to conquer the musical mainstream as skillfully as he has commanded the carnival/soca circuit since the 1990s. To facilitate this mission, Machel will base himself outside of T&T for several months and focus on recording songs that will solidify soca's presence in the crossover market. "We want to use our experience to take soca international," he says. "We have had the chart success of Kevin Lyttle with "Turn Me On" and Rupee's "Tempted to Touch" (both songs entered the Billboard Hot 100 in 2004) but we need more than that. I have been trying to revolutionize soca, trying to improve its quality. It is very difficult to bring soca to the mainstream and stay grounded at home but we have created a sound that we believe is palatable to all markets and can play on the radio in rotation with other popular songs. That is a dream I have always had and something I look forward to achieving."