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Friday, August 15, 2025

Discover Arielle on Saturday

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A for­mer na­tion­al hock­ey play­er, 25-year-old Arielle Cowie is now aim­ing for the stars as a singer. A so­lo artiste, Cowie is do­ing her first ma­jor pub­lic per­for­mance on Sat­ur­day at the Fi­es­ta Plaza, Movi­eTowne, Port-of-Spain, with its se­ries of con­certs–Dis­cov­er Me–held month­ly to show­case new and up­com­ing artistes.

"I have al­ways been singing," said Cowie. "As a child I sang with my pri­ma­ry school, Dun­ross Prepara­to­ry School in West­moor­ings. I did mu­sic fes­ti­val, the whole works. For some rea­son, af­ter pri­ma­ry school and en­ter­ing sec­ondary school at Holy Name Con­vent, I went in­to a shell and con­cen­trat­ed on play­ing hock­ey."

Cowie, a Capri­corn, is the youngest of five chil­dren, with two broth­ers and two sis­ters. "As a child grow­ing up in Di­a­mond Vale, I had a great child­hood," said Cowie. "I was spoilt and al­ways had my own way. I grew up in hock­ey. I played the game in pri­ma­ry school and got se­ri­ous about it in sec­ondary school. I even­tu­al­ly joined Ven­tures Hock­ey Club, the club my late moth­er, Caryl Cowie, was pres­i­dent of.

"I got a full schol­ar­ship to the Ohio State Uni­ver­si­ty in Colum­bus. It was a fan­tas­tic ex­pe­ri­ence. At first, I was very ner­vous about it, es­pe­cial­ly as it was my first time re­sid­ing away from home, not to men­tion not know­ing any­body in Ohio. When I joined the uni­ver­si­ty team, the girls and I just clicked beau­ti­ful­ly. I spent four years at Ohio and ac­tu­al­ly cap­tained the team in my last year."

Miss­ing fam­i­ly and friends in Trinidad, Cowie re­turned home in 2014. Now back on Trinidad soil, she de­cid­ed to be­gin do­ing mu­sic. She said: "When I re­turned, it was a lit­tle bit slow to link with the peo­ple in the mu­sic in­dus­try. Last year, I made my de­but on a big stage, play­ing Cin­derel­la in the Bag­gasse Com­pa­ny stage pro­duc­tion at Queen's Hall.

"This just gave me a lot of con­fi­dence and made me re­alise that I could re­al­ly pur­sue singing. Since then I have met so many peo­ple and I have been writ­ing and in the stu­dio pro­duc­ing mu­sic. I have been work­ing with Sys­tem 32 and Jo­hann Seaton of Ul­ti­mate Re­jects."

Cowie's favourite artiste is Be­y­once main­ly be­cause of her "chameleon abil­i­ty to change, not just phys­i­cal­ly, but the var­i­ous ve­neers of her mu­sic."

Cowie com­pos­es her own ma­te­r­i­al, de­scribed by her as "mu­sic that is al­ways re­lat­able," per­tain­ing to her per­son­al ex­pe­ri­ences.

In an up­beat note about her Sat­ur­day night per­for­mance, she said: "It is go­ing to be a fun night as I will have a re­al­ly amaz­ing band named Over­drive and my reper­toire will com­prise of sev­er­al beau­ti­ful up­beat songs with some slow bal­lads as well. I will be singing songs for every­one."


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