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Day 27 – Peter Ram
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The name Peter Ram is a strong one in the Caribbean’s music and entertainment landscape, especially so in the past few years. He’s truly an entertainment veteran, starting his career in the 80’s as a DJ before moving on to becoming a songwriter and artiste.
The entertainer, whose real name is Peter Wiggins has written songs for some of the big names in the Soca music industry, among them, Alison Hinds and King Bubba. Many of his compositions have been released by VP Records on some of their compilation albums.
Over the years, Peter Ram has proven fully capable of destroying stages with his quick wit and flow. Among his hits is a song called, “The Pledge”, which was done in 2003 and dedicated to the people of his homeland, Barbados. Other crowd pleasers recorded and performed over the years by the artiste, include, “Woman By My Side,” “Pumpin” in 2008, “Tight” also in 2008, “Go Gyul” in 2012, “All Ah We” written by Jason Shaft Bishop and “Good Morning”- a song that was done for Cropover 2016 but continues to generate good vibes ahead of Carnival 2017 in Trinidad and Tobago.
Peter Ram was crowned Barados’ Party Monarch in 2015. In that same year, he was crowned Road march King on the island of his birth.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=”bg_color” css=”.vc_custom_1484610929211{margin-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #8224e3 !important;}” bg_color_value=”#624bc7″][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]
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Day 41 – KI
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A major part of Trinidad and Tobago’s carnival landscape, Kris Veeshal Persad, best known as KI, is one of the country’s best Chutney Soca contributors. He has won the Chutney Soca Monarch title three times- the last in 2016.
KI is the son of Trinidad’s established keyboardist, bandleader, & producer Veerendra Persad and KI himself started his career in entertainment as a keyboardist at the age of 7.
He competed and won the very first “Children of Mastana” competition and shortly thereafter migrated to Canada where he spent his formative years concentrating on his Academics and studying music. KI continued to display his commitment and dedication to the band and was given the opportunity to be lead musician and producer for JMC 3veni. He used this experience to produce the band’s last 5 albums, and collaborated with Madmen Productions in producing the massive hit “In Front Of Meh” by Umi Marcano, formally of Machel Montano’s “HD.”
During his career in the chutney soca music arena, KI has delivered songs like, ‘Catch Meh Lovah’, ‘No More Rum Again’, ‘Same Gyal Twice,’ ‘Runaway’ and ‘Baggage’. He has toured the world and even opened for Soca star Machel Montano in Manhattan, NYC.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=”bg_color” css=”.vc_custom_1484610929211{margin-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #8224e3 !important;}” bg_color_value=”#624bc7″][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]
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Day 40 – Angela Hunte
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]All it took was one quick collaboration with the King of Soca, Machel Montano in 2015 for the people of her homeland of Trinidad and Tobago, along with the rest of the Caribbean, to fall in love with US based singer songwriter, Angela Hunte.
The Grammy award winner, who is internationally known for her role as contributing writer on the Alicia Keys, Jay Z single, ‘Empire State of Mind’, has certainly immersed herself in the culture of her homeland, proving that she is a Caribbean woman to the core and fully capable of representing the Diaspora with a tremendous sense of ease.
Angela Hunte’s distinct style of soca is truly enticing. Her first collaboration with Machel Montano, a song called ‘Party Done’, heard the vocal range of the Brooklyn resident in a way that immediately sold her to soca music lovers around the world. Onstage, she was the epitome of exuberance. Angela Hunte had sealed the deal and would become a committed part of the Carnival culture of T&T and those experienced around the world.
In 2016, Hunte followed up her ‘Party Done’ anthem with ‘Mon Bon Ami and ‘Like So’. Her 2017 contributions are ‘Big Drum Beat’ and ‘Make Me Go.’[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=”bg_color” css=”.vc_custom_1484610929211{margin-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #8224e3 !important;}” bg_color_value=”#624bc7″][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]
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