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Carib Soca Monarch update

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This staging of the Carib Soca Monarch Competition will see the return of the quarter-final leg of the competition, which was last held in 2007. The quarter-final staging is scheduled for February 2 at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground in Linden, where five contestants will be eliminated, and those remaining will advance to the semi-final staging, to be held on February 9, at Area H Ground in Rose Hall Town, Corentyne.

A further five would also be eliminated and the remaining 12 will be joined by reigning monarch, Jumo Primo, for the grand finale to be held at the National Park on February 16. Submitted entries were judged on the components of lyrics, melody, rendition, diction and musical arrangement.

In this year’s competition, Adrian Dutchin will be performing “Jook” and Anthony “Chiney Man” Abrams will be doing his song titled “Pose”. Atiola “Attie” Peters will perform “Nail De Wood”, while Compton “Mysterious” Boyce will perform “We Don’t Know”.

Dwayne “King Shepherd” Semple will perform “More Wuk Up” this year and Jonathan “Lil Red” King “Never Stop”. Roger “Roger B” Bowen will perform “Looking Fuh Bumper”, which will be followed by the Kross Kolor team of Melissa “Vanilla” Roberts and Wilbur “Lil Man” Levans with “Tear De Roof”. Orlando “Bonesman” Jonashen will perform “Done Them”. A number of amateur singers have entered the competition, including Colbert “Magga Man” Dublin, who will present “Shaking It”, as Ernesta Nelson brings to the stage “Twirl”. Ivelaw Maxwell is competing with “Soca Victim”, and Jamal “G Money” Gittens with “Big Belly vs Bumpa”.

James “Boss Stephens” Gordon will present “Soca Mascara”; Jermaine “Venom” Mc Bean “Storm de Road”; and Kirk Brown will perform “Dat Is All I Want”. Kwesi “Ace” Edmondson will attempt to thrill the audiences with “Same Thing”, making room after for Shondel “Sugar” London with “Hard Wuk”. Rawleston “Murphy” Warde will perform “Invasion”, and Guyana top model turned singer, Yolanda Kerr, will try her hand in this field with “Is We Festival”.

Onassis “Ryan T” Croker will compete with “United”, and Quacy “Avalanche” Coates will round off the party with “Work It”.

The semi-finals are proposed to be held on February 2 in Linden and the finals on February 16, in Georgetown. The winner will walk away with $1.5 million, while the second and third placed winners will pocket $500,000 and 250,000 respectively.