{"id":238425,"date":"2019-10-28T15:15:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T19:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=238425"},"modified":"2019-10-28T15:16:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T19:16:28","slug":"motto-to-dominica-i-am-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/motto-to-dominica-i-am-sorry\/","title":{"rendered":"Motto to Dominica: I am sorry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-10-28-at-1.11.16-PM-642x642.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-238427\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>St Lucian Bouyon artiste, Lashley Wendel Winter whose stage name is &#8216;Motto&#8217;, has apologized for what he said was a \u201cslight glitch of words\u201d during his performance at the 21st Edition of the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF) on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Motto, who was performing for the first time at the festival, said\u00a0Bouyon music originated in St Lucia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in his apology, Motto said what&nbsp;he meant to say was that St Lucia is influenced largely by Bouyon music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI would like to apologize to the people of Dominica for my slight glitch of words last night at the World Creole Fest,\u201d he said. \u201c&#8230;After my little speech in [an] attempt to unite bouyon music, I wrongly stated bouyon started in St Lucia where I obviously meant to say Dominica,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said further that he was caught up in the moment when he made the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLast night, the crowd adrenaline was amazing. [I was] caught up in the moment and did not even realize my error until after finishing performing. I understand this was not received well, but everyone is human, everyone makes mistakes,\u201d The St Lucian music producer\/performer explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Motto said his remarks should not be viewed as any disrespect to anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As an artist\/producer of St Lucia\u2019s new Dennery segment genre, widely influenced by bouyon, I enjoy exposing the world to the many sounds of the Caribbean. I would never purposely disrespect anyone in that manner,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Motto expressed his love for Dominica and its music and said he is honoured to have been able to perform at the World Creole Music Festival for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAgain my deepest apologies for my slight error,\u201d he reiterated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Lucian Bouyon artiste, Lashley Wendel Winter whose stage name is &#8216;Motto&#8217;, has apologized for what he said was a \u201cslight glitch of words\u201d during his performance at the 21st Edition of the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF) on Sunday&#8230;.","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":238427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8,11,77,235,9,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-entertainment","category-general","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-news","category-wcmf"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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