Cherisse Moe

Grow­ing up in Grena­da, her for­ay in­to mu­sic be­gan in the gospel genre. She was an in­te­gral part of her church's choir and it didn't take long be­fore she re­alised that a ca­reer in mu­sic was her des­tiny. And de­spite liv­ing most of her life in the Spice Is­land, the 23-year-old ad­mit­ted that break­ing through the lo­cal so­ca are­na was al­ways her dream. She be­lieves the time has come to make that dream a re­al­i­ty. "I've been in Grena­da hold­ing it down for a while and learn­ing along the way. I've worked with dif­fer­ent pro­duc­ers and see­ing what Grena­da has to of­fer. It's time to show T&T what I could do."

Long haul

Myney, who holds so­ca stars De­stra Gar­cia, Machel Mon­tano and Max­imus Dan in high es­teem, is hop­ing that Un­leash re­ceives reg­u­lar air­play and be­comes a favourite among the peo­ple for C2K11. Does she think that she can re­peat her suc­cess when it comes to the Road March com­pe­ti­tion?

With a laugh, she said, "Well, I'll let the fans de­cide on that one!" She re­vealed, how­ev­er, that en­ter­ing the In­ter­na­tion­al So­ca Monarch Com­pe­ti­tion may be on the cards. The for­mer An­gli­can High School stu­dent, who pens all her songs, will soon re­lease two more tracks, Wuk and Wine and Take It Easy. While stat­ing that the so­ca in­dus­try can some­times be un­friend­ly to­wards new­com­ers, Myney re­mains un­daunt­ed, vow­ing that she's in the busi­ness for the long haul. "I want to one day trav­el the world with my own band. This is what I re­al­ly want to do. There are some peo­ple who I have to thank, Bob­by Steel, Chrisphine Re­aburn, Ken Davis, my pro­duc­ers, fans and fam­i­ly."

Be hum­ble

Al­though so­ca may have once been con­sid­ered a male-dom­i­nat­ed field, Myney not­ed that the rise and suc­cess­es of fe­male artistes, such as Al­i­son Hinds and Faye Ann Lyons, sim­ply can­not be ig­nored.

"As a fe­male artiste, you have to be hum­ble. Yes, you have to be de­mand­ing at times, but re­main­ing hum­ble is very im­por­tant. Pa­tience is al­so some­thing that I re­ly on a lot. The in­dus­try needs to have more pos­i­tive fe­males." Con­sid­er­ing her­self a role mod­el, she said touch­ing and im­prov­ing the lives of the Caribbean's youth re­mained high on her agen­da. "I love my young peo­ple and the fact that they can look up to me is re­al­ly good." With a de­ter­mi­na­tion on­ly matched by few, Myney, who has al­ready suc­cess­ful­ly rep­re­sent­ed Grena­da, is on her way to mak­ing a name for her­self in her home­land. Her next stop...the rest of the world!