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Sunday, July 13, 2025

Machel Makes it 3

Holds Pow­er Ti­tle, but Ker­win wins Groovy

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There was ab­solute cer­tain­ty from a crowd of thou­sands at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um on Fri­day night when host Marc An­tho­ny's clear voice asked pa­trons who had won the Groovy So­ca Monarch com­pe­ti­tion.In con­vinc­ing uni­son, the en­tire sta­di­um thun­dered out one name: "Ker­win!" (Ker­win Du Bois) and af­ter a per­for­mance that was charged, well chore­o­graphed and ex­cit­ing, the judges dis­played to­tal agree­ment.

Du Bois' per­for­mance turned out to be "too re­al" for the pre­vi­ous reign­ing Groovy king, Machel Mon­tano. Mon­tano had held the Groovy crown firm­ly for the past three years, tak­ing it from Kees Di­ef­fen­thaller in 2011.The In­ter­na­tion­al So­ca Monarch com­pe­ti­tion be­gan with per­for­mances from Ravi B, fol­lowed by Mr Fa­mous and Er­phaan Alves, but the crowd start­ed dis­play­ing en­er­gy when St Vin­cent's Skin­ny Fab­u­lous (Gamal Doyle) de­mand­ed that they show him their worst be­hav­iour.

De­stra Gar­cia stood out vo­cal­ly with her per­for­mance of First Time.While Grena­da's Tall­pree de­liv­ered a crowd-pleas­ing per­for­mance, it wasn't un­til Farmer Nap­py (Dar­ryl Hen­ry) came on­stage that the com­pet­i­tive at­mos­phere height­ened. Per­form­ing in po­si­tion nine, Farmer Nap­py was in­tro­duced by a short video from the Mighty Spar­row, with the words, "This is a Big Peo­ple Par­ty."

Ball­room dancers two-stepped across the new So­ca Monarch stage, which had been al­tered to in­clude a nar­row ex­ten­sion jut­ting through the crowd. Farmer Nap­py, like al­most all of the artistes, walked out on­to the ex­ten­sion, bring­ing a close-up ex­pe­ri­ence to pa­trons near­est the stage.Around 12.15 am, Du Bois' name was an­nounced and the crowds screamed.

Dur­ing his five-minute per­for­mance he said he was born to win the com­pe­ti­tion this year. When he fin­ished and ex­it­ed the stage, fans called on him to re­turn: "Ker­win! Ker­win! Ker­win!"Dur­ing Mon­tano's pre­sen­ta­tion, he brought his three chil­dren on stage and the Mighty Spar­row, who was rolled on in a char­i­ot and stood wav­ing as he sang Mon­tano's lyrics. While fans cheered, it was clear that Mon­tano's tac­tics could not beat Du Bois' re­cep­tion.

The win­ners

Pow­er So­ca Monarch

1 Machel Mon­tano

2 De­stra Gar­cia, Neil Iw­er George and Mr Kil­la (Hol­lice Mapp)

Groovy So­ca Monarch:

1 Ker­win Du Bois

2 Machel Mon­tano

3 Farmer Nap­py


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