
Hosted at Washington D.C.’s newly renovated DC Star, a frequent hang-out for Hip Hop A-listers like Rick Ross, Jadakiss, Gucci Mane, and Young Joc, Soca in Motion brings Soca’s top-listed celebrities like Trinidad and Tobago’s 2009 Carnival quadruple crown-winner Fayann Lyons, Destra Garcia, Benjai, Patch, Trini Jacobs, and Hunter, alongside Garlin and his famed Asylum Band. Rounding out the power-packed line-up of Soca royalty, Caribbean music icon Beenie Man, in his capacity as the “King of the Dancehall” will officiate the festivities.
“DC Carnival is the perfect place to celebrate my birthday,” states Garlin, whose birth name is Ian Alvarez. “The spirit of Carnival is the spirit of the Caribbean-lively, colorful, celebratory, and welcoming. That is what my music is about. That is what Soca music is about. That is what Caribbean culture is about. This time we are headed straight for the US capital. Everyone is invited to come out and enjoy-especially President Obama,” jokes Garlin.
In his official proclamation declaring June as National Caribbean Heritage Month in the United States, President Obama states “Caribbean Americans bring a unique and vibrant culture. This multilingual and multiethnic tradition has strengthened our social fabric and enriched the diversity of our Nation.”
“Carnival is one of the things that Caribbean people look forward to every year; it is the one day or weekend that we can come out in our full colors and have the rest of the city celebrate being Caribbean with us,” states Moses ‘Beenie Man’ Davis. “Carnival spirit is so powerful that the US said one-day is not enough-give them people the whole month,” he jokes while adding that Bunji Garlin’s birthday party is going to be one of the highlights of DC Carnival this year.
“Big up Bunji Garlin on his Earthstrong (birthday) party,” states Beenie Man. “The King of the Dancehall with the Soca Fire Man-nothing but pure explosion a go di deh,” he adds in his local Caribbean tongue.
“After this one, they are going to need another Ice Age to cool the place down, because we are going to set DC ablaze,” Garlin exclaims, ending with his signature “Fiiiyaaah” stage call.
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