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In what Kaleen believes is a testament to the work they have been doing, they were asked to sort the sprawling closet of Machel Montano, a musician known as the "King of Soca" and a superstar in the carnival world.

Dance to soca music at Junkyard Jouvert.

Named after the Spanish slang word for dancing, the party focuses heavily on sounds from Latin and South America, but also delves into music from other parts of the world such as soca and Gqom, which has roots in South Africa.

“I just felt it in my heart that L.A. could use the context of soca to enjoy it because soca is a weird genre that you have to really experience the environment to appreciate it,” says Cooper, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago but raised between Venezuela and New York.

“We’ll just go anywhere from an L.A. hip-hop song into a reggaeton song into a soca song into baile funk into an edit and then back down to Sexyy Red, but it all still connects because all music is connected.”