Three-time Chut­ney So­ca Monarch Ki Per­sad has qual­i­fied for the 2026 Chut­ney So­ca Monarch semi­fi­nal af­ter a 10-year ab­sence.

Ki Per­sad is one of 33 artistes ad­vanc­ing to the se­mi fi­nal round, sched­uled for Fri­day 30 Jan­u­ary at the Fla­va Food Vil­lage, Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port of Spain.

The semi­fi­nal will be staged in Port of Spain for the first time on Jan­u­ary 30.

Or­gan­is­ers con­firmed that a live, in-per­son screen­ing with artistes was con­duct­ed at the GM Labs, GML Build­ing.

Artistes Rasi­ka Din­di­al and La­dy La­va al­so se­cured places in the semi­fi­nal.

Pro­duc­ers an­nounced that one wild­card se­lec­tion will be added to the semi­fi­nal, in­creas­ing the num­ber of com­pet­ing artistes to 34.

The semi­fi­nal will de­ter­mine the fi­nal­ists who ad­vance in the 2026 Chut­ney So­ca Monarch com­pe­ti­tion.

Qual­i­fied artistes:

Mit­tyranks, Cap­tain Kendel, Dad­dy Chi­nee, Shiv­an R, Slam­mer Cut­ter, Paris Coutain, Rasi­ka Din­di­al, Keipa­lo, Wack­er­man, Ari Ghouralal, Rus­sel M, Ram­po, Mas­ter Saleem, Ra­ju Lal­loo, Devin­dra Gat­too, Nur­iz­za Bachan, Shi­va Mo­hammed, KC Lal­lan, Jus Jake, Kash & Miguel Maestre, La­dy Gyp­sy, Mario Jit­man, Adesh Sama­roo, Nel & Re­ece, Amit Sagram & Os­car B, Shi­va Lakhan, La­dy La­va, Muham­mad Muwak­il, Ki Per­sad, Mau Broth­ers, Nigel Gob­in & Cli­maxx, Kas­turi Ma­haraj, Tri­cia Hamil­ton, Robin J.