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Friday, July 25, 2025

Calypso of the Year award for Kes 

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News Desk
2034 days ago
20191229
Soca artiste Kees Dieffenthaller performs for his fans at C3 Mall outside the 519 club in February.

Soca artiste Kees Dieffenthaller performs for his fans at C3 Mall outside the 519 club in February.

TONY HOWELL

Kes the Band has tak­en the 2019 Ca­lyp­so of the Year ti­tle from the Na­tion­al Ac­tion Cul­tur­al Com­mit­tee with their song, Sa­van­nah Grass.

In a post to the group’s Face­book page yes­ter­day, lead vo­cal­ist Kees Di­ef­fen­thaller posed with the award, which was hand­ed out on Sat­ur­day.

Di­ef­fen­thaller wrote a heart­felt thank you to his fans and those in­volved in the pro­duc­tion of Sa­van­nah Grass.

The song lost the Road­march com­pe­ti­tion in 2019 to Famalay a col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween Machel Mon­tano, Skin­ny Fab­u­lous and Bun­ji Gar­lin but won its place in the hearts of the young and old alike and was dubbed, the “Peo­ple’s Road­march.”

When the song was re­leased, Kes ded­i­cat­ed it to his fa­ther, George Bun­ny Di­ef­fen­thaller, who died on New Year’s Day 2019.

“Thank you Dad­dy for be­liev­ing in this from the mo­ment I shared it with you...and to all the peo­ple, all over the world, who hold this song deep in their hearts. Love y’all. Thank you,” Kes wrote on the band’s Face­book page.


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