Daddy Bass

Daddy Bass is the stage name of Randolph Berry, a Caribbean soca singer and songwriter active in Aruba’s Carnival music scene. He has performed with Tsunami Aruba in the Aruba Caiso & Soca Monarch competition and has been documented as both a vocalist and composer of original soca material.

His verified songs include “Bacchanal Again,” “Repo Man,” and “Main Course.” He was a Soca finalist in Aruba Caiso & Soca Monarch 2023 and placed third with “Bacchanal Again.” He subsequently returned with Tsunami for the 2025 and 2026 editions of the competition.

Daddy Bass, whose publicly confirmed name is Randolph Berry, is a Caribbean singer and songwriter associated with Aruba’s soca and Carnival music scene. A published interview by The Make It by Liza Show describes his musical journey as extending from Sint Maarten to Aruba and connects his career with Brothers Making Wisdom, also referenced as BMW, and later with the band Tsunami. The interview presents Berry as an established Caribbean music artist whose work is closely connected to live performance and Aruba Carnival. Public records also document Daddy Bass performing in Aruba as early as 2011, when a ReverbNation archive listed a live performance of “Bragadam” during Aruba’s Calypso & Roadmarch pre-finals. This confirms a documented performance history spanning at least from 2011 through 2026, although his exact career starting date has not been publicly confirmed.

Berry continued his collaboration with Tsunami in subsequent Carnival seasons. For Aruba Caiso & Soca Monarch 2025, Daddy Bass competed with “Repo Man.” Festival-related listings identify Randolph Berry as Daddy Bass and place him among Tsunami’s 2025 finalists. Tsunami Aruba’s official YouTube release credits Randolph Berry and Claudius Philips Jr. as composers, Claudius Philips Jr. as arranger, and Ashwin Werlemen for mixing and mastering. The song was recorded at Poets Studios. Daddy Bass again returned for the 2026 Aruba Soca Monarch, performing “Main Course.” Official Aruba Caiso & Soca Monarch video coverage documents the song at both the pre-finals and finals. The pre-finals release credits Randolph Berry and Claudius Phillips Jr. as composers and Claudius Phillips Jr. as arranger. Daddy Bass was one of the Tsunami performers who qualified for the 2026 final, demonstrating his continued involvement in Aruba’s contemporary Carnival music circuit.