Destra Garcia has grown from strength to strength since her 1999 debut and the entertainer is showing no signs of slowing down - challenging herself every year, taking her music and her fans along for the exciting journey. Her music has already proved its staying power and its ability to captivate multiple markets. Destra has won fans the world over and has set the mark for high energy live sets that leave the audience wanting more.
She firmly believes that you learn as you grow. From experiences you learn from your mistakes. You have to do what you have to do to make yourself happy.

She barely has time for herself, completing gigs with her band Atlantik as well as handling solo performances. That is just one of the sacrifices that she had to make for her success. Another is spending quality time with her family and friends. But she is determined to achieve her dream of taking soca music to international markets. A guaranteed hit with music loving audiences everywhere, her energetic performances and eye-catching costumes, commanding cameras, you might think it is easy for all her success to go to her head but Destra knows the ropes in the competitive music arena. Audiences and critics always have their noses in the air for the next best thing, but she is prepared and her maturity is evident in her demeanor, her command of the stage, her writing and her sense of self. "I am a lot more relaxed and focused. I'm not worried about stuff that has nothing to do with what I'm doing. I'm concentrating on maintaining my voice, using my vocal techniques. I am engaging in a higher level of spirituality in my preparation. At Carnival you are studying so much more; the music, the audiences, what people are saying about what you are doing, what you are wearing so I am taking it all in stride, because with God anything is possible," she explained. "Everybody is experimenting to see if we could take soca to another level. I already think soca is good, I've decided to see if I can make it more marketable. I'm all for experimenting, but I want to keep most of the elements that already exist."

She started singing Calypso at the early age of 10 years old, at her then Primary School, St. Crispin Anglican. She participated in many interschool competitions in her first competitive year, and actually won her first competition. Her talents propelled her into Junior Calypso Monarch competitions nationwide, where she emerged victorious in the Burrokeets Junior and Senior Monarchs at the age of 14 and 15 years old and was a finalist at the NJAC Junior Calypso Competitions and NCC Junior Calypso Monarch.

She was no stranger to new audiences... Being a member of the NCC Junior Roving Tent. She attended St. James Secondary School and the Polytechnic sixth form Government Secondary. Destra performs with Third Base on the Link Up Productions hit, Ah Have ah Man Already. The track which was spawned from the Pigtail Rhythm produced by Ken Holder, is a runaway hit, audiences clamor for more from Destra. 
Destra became the first lead female vocalist for Roy Cape All Stars, still holding down her job at Mc Enearnery Business Machines. In 2001, shook the airwaves with her third single, Tremble It. She placed fourth in the Soca Monarch Competitions and third in the Road March race. The band traveled to gigs in North America, Europe and other parts of the Caribbean.

The next year she recorded three singles off the Roy Cape CD, titled Set It Off, Sex Appeal and Wrong Bam Bam, she was all over the radio and setting fire to the clubs. After spending three and a half years with the band, Destra resigned her position as lead female vocalist of the Roy Cape All Stars, she immediately started work on her debut album Red White Black. The album spawns the massive hit - It's Carnival - It sweeps masqueraders through the streets on Carnival Monday and Tuesday. The track also features vocals by Machel Montano. Whey yuh want and Choo Choo are also crowd favorites.

Her sophmore efforts Laventille embraces a subject close to her heart, "Where I'm from and it's to express the view of Trinidad from Laventille, the parallel between the two" she explained. It's to give back to my people and produce something called 'Laventille' to combat the negativity associated with the place. I would be no where if Trinidad was not so supportive of me. I wanted to go deeper and to show that I am proud of where I came from. Laventille contains tracks like Bonnie and Clyde, Up in the Air, Come Beta (with Road March King Shurwayne Winchester), Negative Vibes and a club remix of It's Carnival. It also features Rollercoaster, a song for pan, written and produced by Andre Tanker and a gospel track. The album features production by Ken Marlon Charles (KMC), Junior 'Ibo' Joseph, Brian Morris and Ricardo Rameshwar. She performs in schools nationwide on a tour sponsored by Fritolay. She completes a successful tour of North America and the Caribbean on the strength of her growing repertoire of hits. 
The makers of the internationally known Captain Morgan's Rum use Destra's Bonnie and Clyde in their North American Ad Campaign. The ad is featured in prime time spots  on all major US Cable Music Channels. International Recording Artiste, Kevin Lyttle introduces MTV's 10 Spot to Destra when the Dj plays a recording of 'It's Carnival' while he dances with the crowd.

2006 - Destra signs up with telecommunications giant. Digicel to become their first female spokeswoman in Trinidad & Tobago. Destra releases her fourth album Independent Lady, which features the hits, Independent Lady, Aur Chale (with Dil-E-Nadaan), Colours, Jumpin', Out Ah Time and Max It Up. The max It Up Video spends several weeks in the weekly video countdown programme, D' Scene on Synergy TV.
Destra has shared the stage with international superstars like Heather Headley, Sean Paul, Shaggy, Ja-Rule, Rihanna, Mary J Blige, Patti La Belle, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder. For the past five years, Destra has won many awards and accreditations, some of which include twelve (12) Soca Awards and four COTT Awards, three of which were for Best Female Songwriter from 2004-2008 and best pan song for 2006. She remains the most requested female soca artist of the Caribbean and the world.

2008 - Destra released her 5 album which was a compilation of 2007 and 2008 songs which features collaborations done by world famous Jamaican artists, Free It Up with Sean Paul, On the Floor with Vegas, Wine It and Saddle on the Banjo Riddum.

2009 - Destra's releases included for the 2009 Baccahnal and Hot for her new album HOTT, which contains the massive hits, Baccahnal, Sassiness and Hott. She has also performed on the stage with Rick Ross and the leading reggae artist at Best of the Best in Miami, being the only female soca artist to perform at this famed reggae festival whose Dj was DJ Khaled (Jay Z's DJ). Destra has also won five more awards to her name this year. From at the Second Soca Music Awards UK 27/09/09 she won the following categories in the International Soca Awards http://www.socaawards.com 
Female Soca Performer of the year 2009
Destra Garcia & Fay Ann Lyons (Best Soca Collaboration)
Groove - Obsessive Winers (Destra, Denise Belfon & Allison Hinds)
Overall Female Artiste of the Year
Soca Album of the Year (Fay Ann Lyons & Destra Garcia)
Best Soca Music Video (Eldon Pernell Productions)

Destra Garcia is also a lover of pan music which she writes and collaborates yearly with Mark LoQuan with arrangements being done by Ken Professor Philmoore and songs produced Junior Ibo Joseph. She has released two pan songs Surrender and Rewind for all her pan music lovers. The Laventille Steel Band - Courts Song Specialists has won three years in a row playing Destra's music.