Department of Creative and Festival Arts graduate Nkosi Sucre wins Youth Champion at Ultimate Soca Champion competition
“Soca is life for me,” sings Nkosi Sucre in his Carnival 2025 track The Greatest, and this season, his passion for the music bore fruit. On February 20, Nkosi became the Youth Soca Champion of the Ultimate Soca Champion competition, taking the $200,000 first prize.
And apart from being an extremely talented singer and performer, the young man from Palo Seco in South Trinidad is also a graduate of UWI St Augustine. Nkosi graduated last year with his Bachelor of Arts in Musical Arts from the Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA).
“We’re beyond proud to celebrate Nkosi,” read a statement from the St Augustine campus.
He won against five other contestants in the youth category, including rising soca star Verse, who came second. The Ultimate Soca Champion competition was held at the Queen’s Park Savannah. Blaka Dan was the overall winner, receiving $1 million.
Musical Arts is one of four programmes of study at DCFA. The others are Visual Arts, Theatre Arts, and Dance. Apart from his academic work at DCFA, Nkosi also took part in UWI Got Talent, the popular competition for UWI St Augustine students to show their vocal, musical, dance, and performance art.
