Lau­ra Dowrich-Phillips

He al­so cred­it­ed the qual­i­ty of mu­sic this Car­ni­val, not the $2 mil­lion first prize, to the re­turn of so­ca's stars to the Fan­tas­tic Fri­day stage. Mon­tano is mak­ing his re­turn to Car­ni­val af­ter his ab­sence last year.

On Thurs­day, he set the on-line world abuzz with spec­u­la­tion when he told a morn­ing show that he had dreamt of win­ning the com­pe­ti­tion. He re­leased his new sin­gle Ad­van­tage on Fri­day.