Melly Rose

The story so far.

Written and edited by Smokiller

Melly Rose is a Trinidadian music artist whose sound mixes afrobeats, soca and pop. Her stage dates have taken her to the United States, Dubai, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa. She picked up an award at the Nigerian Entertainment Awards and earned a Best New Artist nomination at the 2023 Caribbean Music Awards. In February 2021 she was one of the finalists of The Monarch, the competition that replaced the International Soca Monarch that year. Her soca catalogue includes Wah Ya Want, featuring Sekon Sta, on the Precision Productions Turbulence Riddim, along with Wine Up Yuh Waist (Till it Bun) with DJ Private Ryan and The Greatest with Jaron Nurse. In December 2024 she released her first parang single, Christmas Is Here, with Afeisha Brown and the veteran Crazy, who had urged her years earlier to record parang. In 2025 she released Still Ah Rise, an afro soca song about resilience with a video filmed in Trinidad and Tobago. She also hosts the interview show Spotlight Caribbean.