Chutney Soca Monarch 2012 | Kris Vishal "KI" Persad

This is one for the history books because Kris "KI" Persad is the youngest entertainer to win the Chutney Soca Monarch title at the age of 26. He won the title with his ever popular song "Single Forever".

I guess the lure of being a free person went down well not only with the crowd and voters but also the judges. He now has the opportunity to take the Groovy Soca Monarch title on "Fantastic Friday" having previously qualified for the competition at the Arima Velodrome semi final event.
This young man also has a remix of this song done with the Soca King Machel Montano. It should be interesting to see what the future has in store for this talented young man. 

“I am truly humbled and it is a dream come true,” Persad said. For the competition, votes sent in by supporters via cellular phone text messaging, replaced the need for judges and Persad, singing his runaway hit “Single Forever”, was crowned king by a massive margin of 36,737 votes to second-place winner and former chutney soca monarch Rikki Jai’s 32,781."
Now this young man has to think about what he is going to do with the $1 Million first prize that he won for his effort. This was the first time that the show was held at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain and carried the name 2012 Lotto Plus Chutney Soca Monarch. An estimated 12,000 patrons attended the show that started around 6:00 pm and ended around 3:00 am. The show was moved to Port-of-Spain to make it more inclusive to the greater population and tourists visiting the country who would not venture past the Caroni bridge to attend the show.

Southex Promotions (the show's organizers) declared the show a success. George Singh, the promoter of the event, intends to keep the show in Port-of-Spain and promises a bigger and better show next year.

1St. Place - Kris "KI" Persad
2Nd. Place - Rikki Jai
3Rd. Place - Rick Ramoutar

Please be advised that the music is presented here for your listening pleasure and for promotional purposes only ("Fair Use" Musical Content Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976). Lend me your ears... Enjoy!
♫ Please press the play button to listen (small triangle below).
Single Forever Kris "KI" Persad & JMC 3VENI


The Remix version was written by KI & Veerendra "Cappy" Persad and Machel Montano. The track was produced by Rishi Mahato & KI for Maha Productions; it was mixed and mastered by Rishi Mahato for Maha Productions.
Single Forever (Remix) - KI & Machel Montano

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