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Soca artist and DJ Ding Dong<\/a> (Andre Holder) has released two new songs ahead of Tobago Carnival 2025, with plans for more leading into Trinidad Carnival 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ding Dong has been consistent in most carnival seasons. He performs with de All Starz Band and makes it a rule to work with a new producer and songwriter each year. \u201cI dutifully work with a new producer and songwriter each year,\u201d he said. For this season, he is collaborating with songwriter Emmanuel Rudder and producer Richard Gosine.\u00a0<\/p>\n His first release, Wanna Party<\/a><\/strong>, is on the Guitar Man riddim<\/em>, which also features Salty and Ms. Kerlz. \u201cI\u2019ve released \u2018Wanna Party<\/strong>\u2019 on the Guitar Man riddim<\/em>. He\u2019s been on the scene, but this is actually his first project, and the riddim is named after him,\u201d Ding Dong explained. His second single, Mas Band Thoughts<\/a><\/strong>, came out on 12 September. It features DJ Spider and was produced by DJ Spider and Darien Bailey.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ding Dong explained that he is building his music step by step, moving through different tempos. He has reached 115\u2013130 BPM and plans to add two more songs before shifting into Power Soca for a complete set.\u00a0<\/p>\n The artist has also lost about 16 kilograms (2.5 stones) on a strict fitness journey. \u201cDocumenting my weight-loss journey has shown people that patience and discipline is the key to growth,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n With Tobago Carnival<\/a> in October and Trinidad Carnival<\/a> in February 2026, Ding Dong is preparing to deliver a more diverse catalogue for fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source socanews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Soca artist and DJ Ding Dong (Andre Holder) has released two new songs ahead of Tobago Carnival 2025, with plans for more leading into Trinidad Carnival 2026.\u00a0 Ding Dong has been consistent in most carnival seasons. He performs with de All Starz Band and makes it a rule to work with a new producer and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2041073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2041072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ding-Dong-releases-two-new-songs-ahead-of-Tobago-Carnival.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2041072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2041073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}