Meet Phool­mati Ros­alyn Per­sad-Ce­les­tine, the woman be­hind Prophet Ben­jamin's 2013 pop­u­lar Chut­ney/So­ca of­fer­ing Lokani.The ex­po­sure and fame this hit brought to the com­pos­er, al­so known as "Tan­ty Rose," has pro­pelled her to not on­ly record her mu­sic and of­fer it to oth­ers but to take to the stage her­self.A house­wife who op­er­ates a mar­ket on New Vil­lage, Point Fortin, where she sells pro­duce from her gar­den, Per­sad-Ce­les­tine said that while she has been com­pos­ing and writ­ing chut­ney/so­ca songs for decades, this is the first time she has writ­ten for some­one else.

Per­sad-Ce­les­tine said she in­her­it­ed the gift of singing and com­pos­ing from her moth­er, who per­formed of­ten at tra­di­tion­al Hin­du wed­dings. A tra­di­tion she has con­tin­ued."She com­posed on the spot," said Per­sad-Ce­les­tine, adding she is se­ri­ous­ly con­sid­er­ing en­ter­ing the Chut­ney/So­ca Monarch com­pe­ti­tion next year.De­scrib­ing her mar­ket hut as, "my of­fice, where I am al­ways writ­ing songs," Per­sad-Ce­les­tine said it is here she met Prophet Ben­jamin, who ex­pressed a de­sire to cross over in­to the chut­ney/so­ca realm and en­cour­aged her to "write some­thing" for him.

She did. And Ben­jamin said he en­hanced it with a few vers­es of his own while adding a bit of Reg­gae flavour.The end re­sult: a very suc­cess­ful 2013 Car­ni­val sea­son, eighth place in the chut­ney/so­ca com­pe­ti­tion and an op­por­tu­ni­ty for Per­sad-Ce­les­tine as the "Lokani" dur­ing his per­for­mance at Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do.Speak­ing about her fu­ture plans, Per­sad-Ce­les­tine said the Lokani pop­u­lar­i­ty has en­cour­aged her to re­lease a new chut­ney/so­ca sin­gle, Moth­er I Love You and I Apol­o­gise, just in time for Moth­er's Day.She said the song spoke to chil­dren who had wronged their moth­ers but might not know how to say sor­ry.

"Such chil­dren can give their moth­er the CD and say 'Hap­py Moth­er's Day.' Hope­ful­ly, when she lis­tens to the song, it can help bring them back to­geth­er."Her in­ten­tion is to one day es­tab­lish a home for the so­cial­ly dis­placed, as well as bat­tered women and chil­dren.