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Fay-Ann Lyons InterviewPosted: 5th Sep 2009 Fay-Ann Lyons Alvarez, is the daughter of Road March and Soca Monarch King Super Blue, and wife of Bunji Garlin. However, she made a name for herself on her own account; she composes her own lyrics and melodies. Entering the Soca industry only 7 years ago, she has since made a huge impact with her youthful, gifted and sexy persona.  Prior to the Notting Hill Carnival weekend, Fay-Ann accompanied by husband Bunji Garlin flew into London from Trinidad and Tobago, along with a host of other Soca artists from many other Caribbean islands – Peter Ram and Lil Rick from Barbados; Berbice from Grenada; Ricky T from St Lucia; Benjai, Hunter and special guest Iwer George all from Trinidad and Tobago. All of these artists flew in especially for the “NextLevel Poison UK Energy Carnival Concert” that took place on Friday 28th August 2009. I caught up with Fay-Ann for a chat... Tempo: How does Carnival in Trinidad compare to other carnivals you have experienced around the world? Fay-Ann Lyons: Well for one, Carnival is differently organised and structured in Trinidad. Carnival is not centralised, it envelopes the entire country. You know, any part of Trinidad you go to for the carnival season you can find something happening; especially the parade, they have downtown parade, uptown, and Tobago has something. Even the South of Trinidad has something, even as far as Mayaro, they have their own thing going on. So you find the entire country gets involved, because that’s our culture. As opposed to other countries where they probably have it centralised to a park, a ground or a particular part of the street. Tempo: Being Road March winner in Trinidad this year and last year, how will you defend your title in 2010? Fay-Ann Lyons: The thing with Road March is there is nothing you can really do to defend the title because how it works is that the people have to decide if they want your song for Road March. So you could think your song is the best song in the entire world, once the people say no, it’s a no. If they say yes, it’s a yes. So I wouldn’t have it any other way. Tempo: Would you encourage your daughter to follow in your footsteps? Fay-Ann Lyons: I wouldn’t encourage but I would support, if she so chooses because I don’t want to influence her in making a decision that would affect her life greatly in the terms of a job. Same way I wouldn’t tell her to go and study medicine or law. The same way I wouldn’t tell her to go study music because I want her to decide for herself what avenue she wants to go into. My role as a mother is to support her. Tempo: Are you planning to have more Soca babies? Fay-Ann Lyons: (Laughs) I don’t know about Soca babies! But I have one rule that my daughter has to be walking and talking before we can consider any others.  At the “NextLevel Poison UK Energy Carnival Concert” Fay-Ann Lyons, Bunji Garlin and Benjai all came onto stage as the final acts of the night. They all collaborated, sung individually and in their own rights commanded the audience. Fay-Ann especially controlled the audience, not only by performing hit after hit but listened to the crowds singing back her infectious lyrics. Fay-Ann quite literally grabbed the attention of the crowd directly in front of her commanding that on her say so they were to move in various directions. As the crowds surged from one direction to another we could only look on in amazement that the people were thoroughly interacting with Fay-Ann Lyons. There was a fitting tribute to Michael Jackson where a medley of his greatest hits were played by the band accompanied by Fay-Ann singing. It comes as no surprise that how even in the Soca genre; Michael Jackson was highly influential, but for us the spectators it was certainly an unpredictable element of the concert, which was greatly received by all. After the Asylum Crew, Fay-Ann and Bunji finished on stage they headed straight to the dressing room where I was fortunate enough to catch up with them again, to grab a quick chat, a photo and say my goodbyes.  After waiting for them both to catch their breaths, I congratulated them on an outstanding performance, all I wanted to know now was what will they be doing for the remainder of the bank holiday weekend here in the UK? "Well we are flying out soon, we are heading back home, and the flight leaves in a few hours" Fay-Ann said. I was very surprised to hear they were not staying a few more days, at least to attend Notting Hill Carnival, but these guys have one busy schedule still ahead of them. “We have to go; we can’t stay for Notting Hill Carnival as we have a number of concerts yet to do” explained Bunji. If you want to catch Fay-Ann Lyons, Bunji Garlin and The Asylum Band you can see them in the following countries: Friday 4th September: Brooklyn, New York Saturday 26th September: Trinidad (Pt. Fortin) Friday 9th October: Miami Vice, Ice Palace, Miami Saturday 10th October: University Fete, Broward Regional Park, Miami Sunday 11th October: Miami Broward One Fete, Bicentennial Park, Miami Written By: Nadia Auckburally  |
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