St. Lucian artiste and performer, Mongstar, has walked away with the trophy from a competition recently held in Martinique to honor Dominican musical legend, Jeff Joseph.
The ‘ALL FOR ONE Caribbean Voice Contest’, was held on October 21 at Salle Aimé Césaire at l’Atrium, Fort-de-France, and saw performers from Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Martin and Trinidad participating.
Mongstar was able to outperform them all to take home the Jeff Joseph Tropy.
Mongstar said he appreciated the hospitality and professionalism of all those who contributed to the success of the competition.
“I’m very pleased to bring this first ‘Jeff Joseph Trophy’ to St Lucia. I’m glad to see that the audience appreciated my performance and I am very proud of Martinique who was able to organize the first edition in such good conditions. I thank all those who supported me and the team of All-4- One,” he said.
The first edition of the annual song contest was modeled after the famous Eurovision Song Festival and supported by the Regional Council of Martinique.
In addition to the artistes, who were specially selected to represent their country or territory by their respective Ministry of Culture or Tourist Board, there were supporting performances by the likes of Lisa Griffith of Barbados, Seal of Martinique and the famous meringue singer, Miriam Cruz, of the Dominican Republic.
For the competition itself, each candidate had to perform two live titles from his or her repertoire, alongside the talented Guy-Marc Vadeleux band from Martinique, before a panel of nine judges.
The dazzling two-hour show was televised in the French West Indies and France and there will be a rebroadcast later this month through Caribvision and selected terrestrial television stations across the region.
Martinican, Loriane Zechariah, was the first runner up and Darline Desca, from Haiti, was second runner up.
Dominica was represented by Joy Stoute.
“We are all Caribbean, we are one. We have the same blood running through our veins and we need to share a lot more to build together a beautiful Caribbean unity,” St Lucian, Mongstar, said.
Look and learn Dominica – look and learn! You people do not know how to appreciate your own… well someone else will do it for you!
NNice Gig.A performance clip should have been posted.Bravo to all.
NNice Gig. Bravo to all.
Nice Gig.Bravo
Congrats Mongstar, you always wanted to rep for LUCIA and they always faught you down and look at that,
you went, you did your thing, you rep and you won… “St. Lucia we Love”… Jeff Joe will always be remembered and loved in SLU and dont ask for that man Chubby sorry Dominica but he is ours for life.. 
Amazing to see another country has a competetion trophy after a non native. A Dominican at that. Very telling. Jeff has earned it. What an opporrunity to promote Cadance, Domimica, and the creol festival.
St. Lucia going to do a trophy with chubby soon. They probable give him citizenship already.
Yet in DA we pay Sean Paul tens of thou to perform and chubby gets the change that fall off Sean Pauls pocket
Was was this show not televised in Dominica, the Homeland of Jeff Joe.
It will soon be televised in Dominica. Just hold on for a couple days.
DNO you take that story straight from Caribbean News 360. LOL just a lil shaking up you all give it.
ADMIN: We used the same release sent by the organizers to all the media houses in the region and ‘shook it’ up a bit.
DNO you started responding so nicely but you watered down the educational moment with the question. Even when the criticism is unfounded do not let it get you flustered. After all, I’m sure you have weathered worst storms.
Keep up the good work and keep on education. Success & God bless!
Keep on educating
DNO Great to see you made amends. That shows maturity.
But next time post the correction below the initial comment lest people conclude that we are wrongfully and unduly accusing or attacking DNO.
DNO this habit of answering people in that manner needs to stop. The person made a simple remark, you all take offense? I do not see admins on Yahoo, or MSN replying to people comments
I know that’s that nonsense in Dominica people are entitle to there opinion. They want to post what post then want etc and can’t stomach sensible commentry. Carmem DNO
Pleased that JEFF JOSEPH is honoured in this way thus continuing his legacy.
I could not help but notice that it was Martinique that organized such a show with the trophy named after JEFF JOSEPH. I will be quick to say that I do not know how the show started, the scope of its organizing, its structure, its financing etc etc. so I’m not sure if Dominica has or had the resources to pull off something like that.
I only highlight this to say that if it was contemplated to use Jeff Joseph’s name as part of our Tourism brand then part of that lustre is lost to Martinique who will harness such rich potential to the fullest.
this reminded me when I was studying in Europe (Ukraine) a Senegalese student and a Seychelles student wanted to put his neck on the block the Grammacks International & Exile One were FRENCH Bands formed in France with a few Dominican Members. It was only when the Senegalese student brought out his LPs I was able to point out to him (in the fine print) that they were Dominican Musical groups. These groups had a big reach in the francophone countries of Africa and Seychelles. This ought always to be a major consideration by Festivals Commission, WCMF, Discover Dominica and the Ministry of Tourism when marketing the WCMF or Cadence or other French oriented Dominican genre.
Success to all our organizations and people who promote Dominica.
Don’t panic Mr. Cadette. There are certain actions in train here in Dominica that will make Dominicans, espcially Jeff’s family and the people of St. Joseph proud to be associated with this event. AS you say it is a pity that more of our fellow citizens are unaware of the tremendous impact Dominica’s music has had and continues to have in Africa (including Lusophone Africa) and the indian Ocean.Anyone heard of Kizomba or Kuduro from Angola?
that is so true…just couple of days I heard an Exile One song on the radio and the Dj saying that it was music from Gwada…i was so mad!!
So no male artiste with good strong voice could perform a wicked cadence…but is so we come, is Bouyoun we like….magwasay…we are singing noise instead of what Jeff Joe brought us on the map.
The music forecast for Dominica, is noisy, cloudy and a few tornadoes…pure destruction