Montserrat Festival, Past and Present Montserrat Calypso Monarchs

 

SILVINA "KANDIE" MALONE

KANDIE

Cudjoe Head native Silvina "Kandie" Malone entered the arena in 1999 and posted a respectable sixth-place finish in the Montserrat Calypso Monarch finals. She then snared the title the following year with "Rock Down De Place" and "Vote for DFID". That victory marked the first time a female artist captured the calypso crown in Montserrat. Proving her win was no fluke, she reclaimed the crown in 2003 with "Change De Board" and "Everything is not OK". For her performance of "Change De Board", she donned a man's business suit and goatee for a gender-bender rendition that initially had the audience fooled. A fire officer when she's not performing, the easy-going mother of four rallied with a vengeance in 2006, nabbing the Female Calypso Monarch title and the Calypso Monarch title with the songs "My Vision" and "Front Line."

 

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KANDIE'S DISCOGRAPHY

1999

Festival from Salem to Lookout

Can a Man Understand a Woman?

2000

Vote for DFID

Rock Down de Place

2001

Generation Lost

Better Than Them

2002

Lock Dem Up

Your Carpenter

2003

Everything is Not OK

Change de Board

2004

Man's Worst Enemy

The World Today

2006

My Vision

Front Line

2007

Excuses

The Little Engine That Could

 

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