Kevon Felmine

Su­per! Su­per!They all shout­ed as a sea of blue shroud­ed the Vic­tor Chin Kit Park in Point Fortin as home­town hero Austin "Su­perBlue" Lyons re­ceived the keys to his brand-new Mit­subishi Lancer GLX.With yes­ter­day be­ing de­clared "Su­per Fri­day" by Point Fortin may­or Clyde Paul, the prize-giv­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the TU­CO/Vibe CT 105.1 FM Road March Com­pe­ti­tion 2013, re­sem­bled a coro­na­tion with fans hail­ing Lyons as the "King of So­ca."

Stand­ing next his ful­ly loaded 1.6 litre car, pre­sent­ed to him by Di­a­mond Mo­tors' gen­er­al man­ag­er Rishi Bas­deo, Lyons show­ered praise on the crowd, who he said had sup­port­ed him for decades."Thank you to the peo­ple of Point Fortin, thank God, friends and fam­i­ly. I just prayed and prayed and now every­thing is as it is," he said.Lyons told re­porters this year's ex­pe­ri­ence meant that he would re­turn in 2014 to the de­fend his So­ca Monarch and Road March ti­tles.

And as the 25th Point Fortin Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions cli­max­es to­day at 4 am, Lyons would be in his J'Ou­vert band, Wa­ter and Pow­der, named af­ter a phrase from his ti­tle-win­ning song, Fan­tas­tic Fri­day.In 1980, Point Fortin be­came a bor­ough, the same year Lyons won his first Road March ti­tle with his hit So­ca Bap­tist.

As he delved in­to a per­for­mance of Fan­tas­tic Fri­day, even Paul and Tu­co pres­i­dent Lu­ta­lo "Broth­er Re­sis­tance" Masim­ba were bounc­ing to the catchy tune. Paul ex­plained that this year's bor­ough cel­e­bra­tions were dubbed "the resur­gence" be­cause of Lyons' in­cred­i­ble come­back.Guardian Me­dia Ltd's pro­mo­tions man­ag­er Ste­fan Williams said it was ex­treme­ly poignant that Lyons re-im­aged him­self the same year the group chose to re-im­age the con­cept of ra­dio in T&T and the Caribbean.