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A new calyspo competition is set to hit the calypso scene with the winning calypsonian taking home $5,000 in cash.<\/p>\nA new calyspo competition is set to hit the calypso scene with the winning calypsonian taking home $5,000 in cash.<\/p>\n
Dubbed “People’s Controversial Calypso Monarch competition,” the show intends to showcase less experienced calypsonians who the public think should have made it to the final of the national show or a calypsonian who, based on public reaction, has been controversial in his or her calypso.<\/p>\n
The show is expected to be held at the Harlem Plaza in New Town on February 16.<\/p>\n
“What we do is that from elimination we select artistes that people realize should have made it or has created some form of controversy,” one of the organizers of the event, Jeff \u201cCharu\u201d Winston, explained to Dominica News Online.<\/p>\n
He said the show will give calypsonians national recognition, who because of lack of experience and support never really made it past eliminations or other stages of the the national show. “For example look at Chris B … Chris B had a good song, maybe he did not present it in the quarter finals the way it was expected by the judges,” he remarked. “But at the end of the day when he was performing, the crowd was in it and participating …but he got carried away by the lack of experience.”<\/p>\n
He said the show will give people like Chris B a chance to show some of the talents that he has. “With our initiative Chris B will have an opportunity to be the people’s king,” Winston explained.<\/p>\n
He said the show will be judged through 60 percent of crowd response such as phone texts and BlackBerry messages and 40 percent through judges based on certain criteria before them. “But the people have the greater impact of choosing the people’s king,” he stated.<\/p>\n
Winston said the public should know who will be taking part in the event after the semi-finals which will be balanced with four competitors from the finals. “So what we doing is balancing it…so even though they had the support of people and people love their music….we are still taking who we think the judges also have chosen to be the top of their criteria and we mix them with what we think the people want and we going to have a competition,” he remarked.<\/p>\n
He also said the event is going to be an annual one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new calyspo competition is set to hit the calypso scene with the winning calypsonian taking home $5,000 in cash. Dubbed “People’s Controversial Calypso Monarch competition,” the show intends to showcase less experienced calypsonians who the public think should have…","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":84786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n