Showing posts with label Road March. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Road March. Show all posts
Thursday, February 26, 2009

A pelau post for my islandistas!

    I got a pelau kind of post for y'all here - a bit of this and a bit of that. Let it simmer and it gine be real good! :)

    The day after completing her Carnival sweep, Queen of the Road, Fay-Ann Lyons-Alvarez was resting up at home and laughing off rumours that she had delivered a 'Carnival Baby'.
     photo credit: Newsday


    Speaking to the Trinidad Express, she said:
    This is marvellous. The rumour went out by who, we don't know, and people instantly believed it. We told people that called it was not true, and they still believed the rumour. The rumour took precedence over what we were saying. This is the most amazing thing I have ever seen. Even though we are saying the baby has not come as yet, people insist it has. It just goes to show that you can't believe everything you hear. Ian and I had a good laugh over it.

    In an interview with Newsday, Bunji added:
    It looks like everyone is so excited with Fay’s baby that they feel that it is the nation’s baby. Since Saturday we have been hearing the rumours. We were sitting looking at the television when the announcer came across and announced that Fay had her baby, we just looked at each other and burst out laughing.

    They both licked out against the bad-minded people who have been saying ... get this one... that she got pregnant just to get people on her side during Carnival, with Bunji saying:
    This is a life not a toy, we wouldn’t do something to jeopardise the child.

    Wow. People really taking this thing too far though - how they could really think that her getting pregnant during Carnival could be purpose-work? It doesn't even make any sense, for it certainly made her job more difficult  for while, as she said, she was not sick, you can't jump and wave much when you're eight months along - besides it not being a good idea, gravity is kind of working against you.



    In her interview with the Guardian, Fay-Ann also had some interesting and insightful observations about how accommodating promoters were of her pregnancy and how it augurs well for other women in the industry who may consider being pregnant and performing.
     “The promoters were lovely. They provided a lounge chair and water backstage and I was comfortable.” She said that act demonstrated that other women in the industry could become pregnant and continue their careers.

    Good stuff to hear.

    In other news, The Insider is claiming that Rihanna has actually spent much of the last few weeks since the Chris Brown incident, recovering in a villa in Punta Mita, Mexico, while her people led folks to believe she was in Barbados. They have pictures too of a very depressed-looking Ri-ri in a swimsuit.

     photo credit: The Insider

    Hmm. Who knows in this whole sordid saga?

    In some more almost totally unrelated news - except that they all from the Caribbean and specifically Barbados, Shontelle and Hal Linton seem to be making some moves in the music biz - at least as far as getting invited to the right parties goes! Everywhere you turn, they are being snapped at another event and why not? God knows we see that Teyana Taylor child all about the place and I still don't know her song. Anyhow, I digress - they were both mixing with music industry big wigs like Sylvia Rhone (Hal's label president) and Vibe Magazine editor Danyel Smith at the Vibe VSessions event the other night.
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    hal-partying-up




    I told y'all it was a pelau post!

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A pelau post for my islandistas!


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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Queen Fay-Ann!

    Tell them that ah tough like iron

    When ah done wid dem,

    Dey bound to know know why mih name is Fay-Ann Lyons.

    What did we say, nuh? Who could beat de lady wid de carnival baby? Not a man - or woman!

    As expected, Super-preggy Fay-Ann Lyons won the Road March, sweeping all three soca titles and making her the 'winning-est' woman ever in Trinidad Carnival.

     The news just came through a short while ago.

    She now has five titles, including an unprecedented three Road March titles - surpassing the great Calypso Rose's two Road March titles and equalling her for back-to-back wins and a Carnival sweep.

    Despite all the talk about Destra Garcia being close, in the end it was a proper cut-ass by Mummy Lyons-Alvarez, with Fay-Ann's 'Meet Super Blue' getting 410 plays to Destra's 'Bacchanal' a distant second with 76 plays.

    Congrats Queen Fay-Ann!

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Queen Fay-Ann!


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Fay-Ann and Destra out front & islandistas at Oscar parties

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    So up to now, we here at Islandista are still not sure who has won the Road March title in Trinidad and Tobago. From all accounts, it seems to be a close battle between Fay-Ann Lyons 'Meet Super Blue' and Destra Garcia's 'Bacchanal'.

    Checking Trinidad's major papers isn't helping either.

    The Trinidad Express claims, 'Bacchanal hot on Super Blue's tail', while the Guardian says 'Destra, Faye-Ann in tight race for Road March'. At first glance, NewsDay seems to be sure it is Fay-Ann, with their front page proclaiming 'Fay-Ann's Queen of the Road' and their online lead story headlined as 'Fay-Ann leads Road March race'. However, later in the article they caution "Destra Garcia's 'Bacchanal' however is not to be discounted."

    Arrrrghhh! Hopefully, the results should be out before noon and I trust our islandista readers will let us know early o'clock which Islandista is the Road March Queen. The suspense is killing me.

    Anyhow, in other news, the Oscar Awards, as you would know, were on Sunday night. While no islandistas won, there were plenty islandistas to be seen at the hot post-Oscar parties such as the Vanity Fair party and Oscar-watch parties, such as the one at Mr. Chow's. Take a look at some of the islandistas who made the scene below.

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    Alicia Keys came with her mom and inexplicably wore an awful wavy-haired wig that detracted from her gorgeous lilac gown that she wore to the ceremony. See a closer shot of the wigginess below.



    [caption id="attachment_677" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Alicia Keys getting wiggy with it."]Alicia Keys getting wiggy with it.[/caption]



    Eh-heh. No.

    garcelle-beauvais-nilon-at-mr-chow



    Haitian-American Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon was gorgeous and statuesque in a cold-shouldered black gown at Mr. Chow's Oscar Watch party (aka the party for the celebs who didn't get invited to the actual ceremony or the hottest ticket, the Vanity Fair party but still have enough wattage to be worth a party.)

    Half-Nevisian Mel B was also at the Mr. Chow party with her ridiculously fantastic body. Grrrr...

    mel-b-at-variety-party

    At the night's hottest party (yes, even hotter than the Oscars which were a bit of a snooze), the gold-ticket Vanity Fair event, islandistas Zoe Saldana (Puerto Rico and Dom. Rep.) and Rosario Dawson (Cuba/Puerto Rico) made appearances.

    rosario-dawson-at-v-fair-party



    zoe-saldana-at-v-fair-party

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Fay-Ann and Destra out front & islandistas at Oscar parties


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