Veteran nine-time Calypso Monarch, Chalkdust (Dr Hollis Liverpool) and two-time monarch, Sugar Aloes (Michael Osouna) have been amongst a number of calypsonians who didn’t advance to the finals of the Nationwide Calypso Monarch to be held on February 19, as Carnival actions proceed in Trinidad resulting in the climax on February 21.
Nonetheless, the winner of the Nationwide Diamond Jubilee Independence Calypso Monarch and this yr’s Younger King Calypso Monarch, Skatie (Carlos James), is amongst 11 singers who will problem the reigning monarch, Terri Lyons, on the finals to be held on the Queen’s Park Savannah within the capital with a primary prize of TT$800,000 (one Tt greenback=US$0.16 cents) inclusive of a car.
They have been chosen from a discipline of 40 performers on the Calypso Fiesta held on the Skinner Park, in San Fernando, on Saturday.
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The opposite calypsonians who’ve superior to the finals embrace former monarchs Karene Asche (2011) and Chuck Gordon (2014 and 2015).
The finalists are
- Terri Lyons — Defending Monarch
- Skatie (Carlos James) — “De New Regular”
- Ta’zyah O’Connor (Duane Ta’zyah O’Connor) — “Sing Hallelujah”
- Ezekiel Yorke — “Being Human”
- Snakey (Heaven Charles) — “What Yuh Want Once more Trinbago”
- Helon Francis — “Mighty”
- Karene Asche — “Oasis”
- Tiny (Kerine Williams Figaro) — “To You with Love”
- Maria Bhola-Paul — “Individuals Man”
- Mark Eastman — “Pleasure”
- Chuck Gordon (Roderick Gordon) — “Maths Eh Mathsing”
- Tameika Darius — “Susheila’s Jahaji Bash”