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     Bunji Garlin has recovered from an after carnival breakdown, and says he is now ready for gigs in Guyana and Toronto.

    The bossman of the Asylum Family confirmed on Facebook that he was victim to a new and deadly viral strain that is going around which he says he would not wish on his worst enemy.

   Up to newstime the body of an unidentified man was still on the roadway just under the Charlieville walkover.

     At around 10 o’ clock this morning it was reported that the man jumped from the walkover to the road way taking his own life.

     Details remain sketchy. 

A compilation CD with the 22 songs  from the team at Precision Productions will be released this weekend online, and will be available   for download at 400 digital online stores.

Machel Montano says he is still executing his mission to spread soca to the world and that will be most evident in his 2013 album Machelements,

        Thus far he has taken the music to rap, reggae, pop,  and 2013 will see him collaborate with R&B, India and Africa.

  Terri Lyons is taking all the drama surrounding the international soca monarch finals all in stride.

              It’s a bomb that was made in Africa and the Caribbean.

       Two of the most talented sons of the African diaspora, Machel Montano and Kerwin Du Bois teamed up with the award winning South African group LadySmith Black  Maambazo for the track “Possess.”

     Rikki Jai is promising retribution when the chutney soca monarch competition returns to Skinner Park in San Fernando.

      Declaring  Skinner Park  as his turf where he made a mark   Jai, in an interview with STAR cheekily declared that is where he will continue to make his mark.

Terri Lyons does not want to distance herself from her famous family. She accepts that her father, sister and brother in law are successful artistes, and she has no problem being associated with them, but she wants to make a name for herself and stand on her own strengths as a musician.

Growing up in south Trinidad Rikki Jai always heard people using the slang “Mauvais Lang”.  If women were wining and getting on bad on the stage for Carnival, people would say the women were getting on Mauvais lang.

Benjai is into the Groovy and Power Soca semi finals. He will be competing with Feter and Atao Engomar. Feter was written and produced by millbeatz, but Engomar was the brain child of Benjai who came up with the idea for the song while doing some research into African history.