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ALBUMTony "CD" Kelly Presents: Dancehall Love (Remastered 2024) - SingleSasha, Beenie Man & Machel Montano
Albums by Machel Montano
ALBUMThe Wedding AlbumMachel Montano
ALBUMG.O.A.T.Machel Montano
ALBUMMonk EvolutionMachel Montano
ALBUMMonk MontéMachel Montano
ALBUMHappiest Man AliveMachel Montano
ALBUMMachelements, Vol. 1Machel Montano
ALBUMDouble M, Vol. 1Machel Montano
ALBUMDouble M, Vol. 2Machel Montano
ALBUMThe ReturnMachel Montano
ALBUMAlbum 34Machel Montano
Machel Montano's Popular Music Videos
Leave Me Alone (feat. Manu Chao & Machel Montano) [Kubiyashi Remix]
Calypso Rose
Young Boy (feat. Machel Montano)
Calypso Rose
Artist Playlists
Machel Montano Essentials
This soca monarch keeps pushing Caribbean music forward.
Artist Biography
Trinidadian singer-songwriter Machel Montano won his first soca competition at age 9, and at 13 he was the youngest person ever to win the Caribbean Song Festival.
∙ In 2007, he reinvented his legendary soca band Xtatik as Machel Montano HD, claiming to be “the first human being to go HD.”
∙ Montano is a seven-time winner at the International Soca Monarch competition, often called the “Super Bowl of soca music.”
∙ The remix video for his 2014 dancehall electro-pop collaboration with Major Lazer and Ariana Grande, “All My Love,” has racked up 71 million views.
∙ His soca-with-a-supercharger single, “Ministry of Road (M.O.R.),” earned Montano the BET Soul Train Award for Best International Performance in 2014.
∙ G.O.A.T., featuring such guests as Bunji Garlin and Ashanti, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Reggae Albums chart in 2019.
Hometown
Trinidad and Tobago
Genre
Reggae