St Kitts and Nevis-born Calypsonian Hansill “Richie” Buntin received the 2023 St Thomas Carnival Calypso Monarch on Sunday.
Livingston “X-Man” Harris and 2018 champion Lucas “John Gotty” Evans have been positioned second and third.
Richie’s two performances comprised of his songs “V.I. Unity” which was impressed by a return to the territory in 2020, after shifting to the States 40 years in the past, and “Vitamin C”, which is about preserving Caribbean traditions.
Richie obtained congratulations from the St. Kitts and Nevis Carnival Fee for being each the 2013 Sugar Mas Calypso Monarch and the primary Soca Monarch of the nation.
“Big congratulations to Hansill Richie Buntin, the newly topped Calypso Monarch of the US Virgin Islands! We want Richie a profitable 12 months of reign and eagerly await his return to the calypso enviornment within the Federation!,” the fee stated.
Buntin, who can be an R&B singer has traveled internationally and has carried out with a band in Istanbul and Japan.
He was additionally the primary runner-up within the 2023 St. Croix Pageant.