Rupee is on the verge. With his single, ‘Tempted to Touch’ in regular radio and video rotation, and an album due out on a major American record label within the month, this artist is poised to be Soca’s next golden voice.

Rupee’s readiness for the world spotlight has been building ever since he won his first Barbados talent competition as a young teenager. His first hit records, with the band Coalishun, followed by a string of smashes from three self-released solo albums, have made Rupee one of the foremost names in soca (soul + calypso) – the supercharged party music of the Caribbean. He has won over masses of jubilant fans through his high-energy soca performances at festivals and concerts throughout the Caribbean, North America, and Europe.

A wise man once said that a prophet is never honored in his own country. And so it has been with Capleton. While the veteran DJ’s words and works long ago earned him the title of “The Prophet,” the respect and honor that should rightfully be his have been a long time coming. “Anytime you try to uplift righteousness and upliftment of the people them, then you ah go get a fight”, says the hottest entertainer in the worldwide reggae fraternity. “Bob Marley come do it and them fight him. And when Bob Marley dead, that’s when they start to endorse him. I already aware of this, I am not unaware. So I know the more them fight I is the more I get stronger.”

Dancehall is under heavy fire around the globe these days for use of anti-gay lyrics in what they are calling “murder music”. Bounty Killer was recently dropped from the Krakrock Festival in Belgium and gay activists are taking aim at the industry as a whole. Recently, Beenie Man and Capleton, were only allowed to perform at Brussel's Couleur Cafe Festival after they promised not to use homophobic lyrics. Both were threatened with arrest under Belgium's hate crime laws if they broke their word, according to a representative from the UK gay activist organization known as Outrage. FullStory