145 profiles · sources · roles · credits

Artists & connectors

Short, sourced and contextual profiles to understand who does what in Bouyon: voices, producers, beatmakers, groups, connectors and scenes.

Each profile separates historical role, credits and sources. The goal: a readable archive, not just a directory.

1T

Artist · producer · beatmaker

1T1

1T1 — real name Terry Baptiste — is the voice-producer behind much of the Guadeloupean New Bouyon Wave. Guadeloupean father, Guyanese mother. At age 3, his uncle Thierry Cham introduces him to gwoka. Ten years on percussion, a production school in France, then keyboard self-taught on YouTube. His single "Bouwéy" feat. Theomaa is certified gold, crosses 18 million views on YouTube and is nominated at the 2026 Flammes Awards in the Caribbean song category. The CHORD album drops in December 2024, and he follows up in 2026 with the single "In Di Corner" feat. MiiMii KDS.

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A

Producer · beatmaker · Th3rd House Studios resident

A Plus Musik

A Plus Musik is a producer based in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, working out of Th3rd House Studios. In September 2025, his single "RAGS" (Trilla G feat. Skinny Fabulous, Shelly) drops on Still Trill Ent. Six months earlier, in March, the track has already won the very first edition of the Bouyon Road March in Dominica with 108 votes out of 56 entrants. He also signs two productions on Trilla G's debut album "Take Me As I Am — The Album" (October 2025): "Nobody" (feat. Stalk Ashley) and "Single Again", in collab with DernzMusik. He's one of the first Bouyon producers to land a major carnival title in Dominica from off-island.

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AL

Dominican Bouyon group

All Star Band

In 1990s Dominica, when Bouyon lives mostly on stage, All Star Band rides the wave full throttle. The group belongs to the generation hopping on Roseau Carnival trucks, working the local fetes and backing the rise of WCK then Triple Kay International. Not a solo headliner — one of the bands holding the scene together when the culture still ran on groups rather than platform singles.

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AR

Bouyon artist · first-wave connector

Arendi

Arendi — also known as Arendi Rondo — is one of the early Bouyon Gwada voices to leave a public trace. As far back as March 2013, he dropped "Tout est Permis" on SoundCloud, long before streaming platforms took over Bouyon distribution. After a pause, he came back in 2017 with "Viniw" and "Holiday", then landed a key feature on "Je l'ai vu" with HollyG and VJ Ben in 2021 — a single that would open the post-COVID cycle and pave the way for the New Bouyon Wave.

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AS

Bouyon artist · Bouyon Boss · Goodwill Ambassador

Asa Banton

In 2011, Asa Banton releases "One Man". The next year, "Bouyon Boss". In April 2013, "Wet Fete". Three singles, three years, and the modern Bouyon solo artist role is invented. Before him, the genre lived mostly through bands — WCK, Triple Kay. After him, it becomes possible to have a nominal career, a stage nickname, an identifiable catalogue and an audience that follows the artist rather than the formation. In 2020, the Dominican State names him Goodwill Ambassador. Four years later, in 2024, he wins the People's Choice Award at the Caribbean Music Awards — against Kes, Patrice Roberts, Skinny Fabulous, Shenseea and Yung Bredda. First time a 100% Bouyon artist wins a pan-Caribbean mainstream category.

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BE

Bouyon vocalist · Triple Kay International member

Benji

Benji — also credited as Khalibu — is one of the lead voices of Triple Kay International, the Dominican Bouyon band that turned the genre into a stage machine starting in 2000. His voice carries several of the group's road march anthems, those choruses built for trucks, Carnival, fetes where the crowd sings along. Without Triple Kay, modern Bouyon doesn't have the same colour — and without Benji, Triple Kay doesn't have the same sound.

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BE

Bouyon artist, founding member of Tolly Boyz

Bernard Gumbs

April 2015, Sandy Ground. Youry has just hummed three words on the bus. That same night, Wizito grabs the mic at a party and performs Tolly she want in front of the crowd to see how the room responds. They react hard. That reaction is what decides everything — next morning, they're at Madtwoz studios. The W in YMW is his stage name. Bernard Gumbs on the birth certificate. Without him in front of the crowd that night, the first Bouyon track actually made in Saint Martin might never have dropped.

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BI

Bouyon artist

Bilix

Bilix — real name Franck Offranc, born 1988 in Anse-Bertrand — discovered music as a child through the Ka, Guadeloupe's traditional drum. He drops "Bodé Apiyé" in 2011 when Bouyon Gwada has no name yet. Five years later, in January 2016, "Sa Ka Débodé" with Mr Boka on a DJ Weez composition becomes one of the hits restarting the scene after Suppa's death. In 2025, his feature on "Long Spoon" with Triple Kay International plugs him straight into the Dominican live scene — a rare crossing for a Guadeloupean artist.

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BI

Bouyon artist · second platform cycle

Binksdrick

2024, Binksdrick drops on two major singles the same year. "Leave Me Alone" with 1T1, Dinho, LeJuh and Theomaa plugs him straight into the New Bouyon Wave core. "1er Feu" with Miimii KDS, Qwann and Dinho plugs him into the Luky Lukee side. Two singles, two different crews, twelve months — that's rare. He becomes one of the NBW's recurring features without being a founding member.

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BR

SXM Bouyon artist

BRG Hollywood

After Tolly Boyz and their 2015-2017 moment, Saint Martin disappears from the Bouyon landscape for eight years. BRG Hollywood restarts the machine in 2025. His sequence is tight: Pocket Rocket opens the year, WTHelly Bouyon feat Gwada G drops May 16, 2025 on the BankrollGang label with production signed by Xavvoknockin, Nouveau La feat Jixels throws a bridge to the New Bouyon Wave in Guadeloupe, We Not Going Home feat C4 closes the SXM triangle, and Liff Up wraps the season. In 2026, BRG Happy with DJ Luchshiy plants him in the recent Bouyon streaming network. BRG is the name that reopens the SXM scene after eight years of platform silence.

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BU

Soca artist · Bouyon collaborator

Bunji Garlin

Bunji Garlin is a Trinidad Soca star — not a Bouyon artist. But he shows up at two pivotal moments in the global Bouyon story. In 2019, he sings on "Famalay" alongside Machel Montano and Skinny Fabulous: the track, produced by Dominican Dada (Krishna Lawrence), wins Trinidad Road March and marks the first Bouyon-to-international-Soca crossover. Between 2022 and 2025, he comes back on the "G.O.A.T. Bouyon Mixes" series with Major Lazer on Mad Decent — first time a global EDM label puts the word Bouyon in an official title. Bunji Garlin is the cross-genre bridge, not a core member.

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BU

DJ collective — Wrecketeng matrix

Bushtown Clan

Bushtown Clan is a Dominican DJ collective from the 1990s-2000s whose name still defines Wrecketeng today — the underground branch of Bouyon mixed with hip-hop, dancehall and sampling. Media producer Jael Joseph sets the reference definition: "music by Bushtown Clan or anything mixed with heavy hip hop/rap would be under Wrecketeng". DJ Cut (also known as DJ Cut Bucktown) is its leading figure. Alongside Klockerz Krew and Nursery Krew Inc., the collective feeds the ground that, twenty years later, will grow into the Nasty Business of Mr Ridge, DJ Taffy, Tha Wizzard and Smokiller.

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C4

SXM artist

C4

C4 is an SXM artist credited as featuring on "We Not Going Home" with BRG Hollywood, an Apple Music single released in 2025. The track is one of the platform traces of the 2025 Saint Martin Bouyon wave, distinct from the Tolly Boyz 2015-2017 trajectory. His presence is strictly tied to this featuring. C4 must not be confused with Xavvoknockin, the SXM producer who signs other titles in the same BRG Hollywood network (see Xavvoknockin profile).

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CA

Bouyon artist · Bouyon Queen · major figure of female Bouyon

Carlyn XP

In 2016, Carlyn XP — civilly Carlyn Xavier-Phillip, from Giraudel, Dominica — wins the Bouyon Monarch. It's the first edition won by a female voice on the modern scene of the genre. The next year, she does it again. headlines: "Carlyn XP Proves She Is Bouyon Soca Monarch For A Second Year". Two consecutive carnivals on the supreme Dominican Bouyon title: that's what seals her Bouyon Queen nickname. In January 2020, she releases "Foreigner" with Edday — produced by Cornell Phillip, WCK founder. During the pandemic, she launches Musical Therapy, a weekly virtual show that keeps the link with her audience.

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CO

Keyboardist · producer · WCK sonic architect

Cornell Phillip

In 1988, in Grand Bay, Dominica, a young keyboardist takes the boumboum bass of jing ping and translates it into aggressive bass synth. He takes the syak and shifts it into TR-505 drum machine programming. The accordion becomes a keyboard pad. That technical move — apparently simple — is the founding act of Bouyon. Cornell "Fingers" Phillip has just invented the sonic grammar of a genre. He co-founds WCK the same year. In 1995, he opens Imperial Publishing studio. In 2007, he forms Fanatik. Thirty-two years later, in January 2020, he is still producing: Edday's "Foreigner" with Carlyn XP.

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D-

Local beatmaker · producer

D-mitri

D-mitri is Youry's older brother and the Sandy Ground neighborhood beatmaker. When the trio show up at Madtwoz studios the day after their party test, his beats are waiting for them. Not a national producer, not a name that crosses borders — just the right guy, in the right place, with the right beats to let three teenagers sign the first Bouyon track actually made in Saint Martin.

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DA

Producer · Bouyon-Soca architect · crossover connector

Dada

In 2007, Dada — civilly Krishna Lawrence, Dominican — drops his Bouyon rhythmic grammar on the Soca production of Ricky T's "Pressure boom" in Saint Lucia. Without knowing it, he has just co-created a new subgenre: Bouyon-Soca, a fusion that will circulate across pan- Caribbean Carnival scenes for years. In 2019, he co-produces "Famalay" — Skinny Fabulous x Machel Montano x Bunji Garlin — which wins the Trinidad Road March. It's the first Bouyon → Soca crossover to reach a massive pan-Caribbean audience. In 2021, Dada Music launches "Smoke Riddim" with several Caribbean artists.

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DE

RnBouyon artist · Afrobeats / Bouyon crossover

Denden

Denden is an Ivorian-French artist holding a key spot in the RnBouyon line. In 2024, she drops "Ils S'demandent" and lays down an R&B signature on slowed Bouyon that nobody handles quite like her. In March 2025, "Padtal" doubles down with a sharper Afrobeats colour. Between Fallon, who claims to have created RnBouyon, and Theodora, who pushes it into the French mainstream, Denden is the exact transition voice connecting the origin to the big breakthrough.

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DE

Drummer · WCK co-founder · Bouyon naming figure

Derek "Rah" Peters

In 1988, in Grand Bay, Dominica, Derek "Rah" Peters co-founds WCK with Cornell Phillip and lays down the drums that will become Bouyon's rhythmic grammar. His hit — an acoustic kit backed by the TR-505 — sets the canonical tempo of the early years around 145 BPM. In 2024, la presse dominicaine interviews him on the roots of the genre. Headline: "I didn't want to be a copycat". He gives his personal version of the oral invention of the word "Bouyon" and places "Kulture Shock 1989" as the first formal song. He leaves WCK in 2003 to co-found Roy Rhythms.

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DI

Producer · Warm Up collaborator

Diixly

February 6, 2026. TIITII NBA drops "LESE NOU PASE" featuring Ma6mo and Diixly. On this single, each role is clear: Diixly builds the beats, DJ Dirtee handles mixing and mastering. That's what places Diixly — real name Sofiann Farah — as one of the regular producers of TIITII NBA's Warm Up. He follows up with "Warm Up" (TIITII NBA x Ma6mo x Diixly). Two back-to-back drops, that's what confirms it.

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DI

Bouyon beatmaker

Dinho

Dinho is a Guadeloupean Bouyon beatmaker, one of the recurring producers of the New Bouyon Wave. In 2024, like Binksdrick, he drops on two important singles: "Leave Me Alone" with 1T1, LeJuh, Theomaa and Binksdrick on one side, "1er Feu" with Miimii KDS, Qwann and Binksdrick on the other. Two different crews the same year. A third piece — "SKILLI" — rounds out the catalog. Three documented drops that place him as a regular featured beatmaker of the movement.

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BO

Beatmaker · Bouyon DJ from Guadeloupe

DJ Boko

DJ Boko — real name Allan Blonbou, Guadeloupe — builds the beats of the TIITII NBA / DJ Softee pole in 2025-2026. He signs the prod of "La Pep'Hit Freestyle" with DJ Softee, TIITII NBA, Le K and DJ Dirtee in June 2025, then "Wet Wet" with TIITII NBA on August 1, 2025, "On Me" on November 5, 2025, and "Jéré Sa" with YSN, Edday, DJ Softee and Jixels on January 30, 2026 via Hakuna Music Company. He also contributes to "Bay Li" on DJ Softee's "Chodong Route Empire C.R.E" EP.

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CU

DJ · producer · Wrecketeng pioneer

DJ Cut

In the 1990s, DJ Cut is one of the first Dominican DJs to remix dancehall and hip-hop over Bouyon instrumentals. Without knowing it, he lays the foundations of the genre's underground branch: Wrecketeng. A member of the Bushtown Clan collective (sometimes spelled Bucktown), he belongs to the lineage that includes Klockerz Krew and Nursery Krew Inc. Thirty years later, his name keeps showing up as a tribute from the subgenre's new producers — including Smokiller, who credits him explicitly on his 2025 Wrecketeng album.

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DI

DJ · producer · Warm Up engineer

DJ Dirtee

DJ Dirtee has been producing Bouyon Gwada since 2017. From 2023, he takes a particular spot: regular sound engineer for TIITII NBA and DJ Softee on their Warm Up releases. In 2025, his name is on "Supalova" (DJ Softee, TIITII NBA — Amazon Music) and "LA PEP'HIT FREESTYLE" (DJ Softee, DJ Boko, TIITII NBA — ). In 2026, he signs the mixing and mastering on TIITII NBA's "LESE NOU PASE" — Diixly builds the beats, he finalizes the sound. Bouyon catalog: "Toly She Want remix", "Sirene Riddim", "Supalova". Not just another DJ, an engineer attached to TIITII NBA.

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JO

DJ · producer · Bouyon Gwada connector

DJ Joe

2007. Bouyon has just landed in Guadeloupe, and DJ Joe sets his decks on the first Yellow Gaza sets. With Vador and Asa Banton, he's one of the three who carry the 160 BPM hardcore sound from Dominica to Pointe-à-Pitre. In December 2012, he hits a Paris stage with Suppa and the Gaza Girls — one of the first times Bouyon Gwada steps outside the Caribbean. Ten years later, he drops "Bwé rhum" with Asa Bantan in 2023 and proves he never left the table.

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LU

Producer · beatmaker · DJ

DJ Luchshiy

DJ Luchshiy, born in 1996 in Guadeloupe, builds the beats that connect both islands. In 2021, his feature with Mr Ridge on "Je T'aime Dayleeway" plugs him into Dominica early. Two years later, "KKM" with Aknose locks him in as a recurring New Bouyon Wave Gwada producer. Today his catalog runs through Aknose, TIITII NBA, Edday, Lestef KJF Boyz, Lucky Lukee, MiiMii KDS, Reo, Jixels and Mr Ridge — one of the few directly linking Guadeloupean production to Dominican voices.

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SK

DJ · composer · beatmaker

DJ Skycee

DJ Skycee — real name Yanis Batta — is a Guadeloupean DJ, composer and beatmaker based in Le Moule. In July 2025, he produces "Sé Miimii" for MiiMii KDS — a single reviewed by Pitchfork as a "Best New Track" that pushes the artist into the global Bouyon conversation. The same year, he chains "With Some Boyz" with Luky Lukee and MiiMii KDS, then "Feel Lonely" with TIITII NBA. His name shows up in the 2025-2026 credits more than most Gwada producers of his generation.

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SK

Beatmaker · Bouyon DJ from Guadeloupe

DJ Skylone

DJ Skylone — real name Kélyan Absalon, born December 8, 1998 in Bouillante (Basse-Terre) — drops his first Bouyon riddims in April 2018 with the "I See You Baby" remix with Doc J, then keeps releasing free-download instrus on YouTube: "Guitare Riddim" the same year, "Noel Rive" in 2019, "Chrismas Skay Riddim" in 2020. In 2024, he signs the prod of "Sa Ka Bay" with TIITII NBA, followed by "No Time" in September 2025 — a single co-credited to Kelyan Absalon (composer and beatmaker) and Terry Capitolin (lyricist). On streaming platforms, his name appears with an alternate spelling: DJ Skaylone.

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SO

DJ · composer · singer · connector

DJ Softee

DJ Softee — real name Julian White — is one of the eight voices who officially name the New Bouyon Wave in September 2023 with "New Bouyon Wave #1". Alongside him: 1T1, TIITII NBA, Aknose, Nils, Luky Lukee, Le Juh and Theomaa. But he doesn't just sing. DJ, composer, singer — he builds "KPT" with TIITII NBA in 2024, signs the collective EP "Chodong Route Empire C.R.E" in 2025, and co-builds the platform Warm Up core with TIITII NBA and DJ Dirtee. One of the few to juggle the three roles without favoring one.

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WE

DJ · producer · Gwada relaunch figure

DJ Weez

2016. Three years after Suppa's death, Bouyon Gwada is looking for a second wind. That's when DJ Weez signs Bilix's "Sa Ka Débodé" featuring Mr Boka — the hit that restarts the engine. Shazam credits him as composer. For six years, he becomes one of the producers restarting the scene alongside Bilix, Kevni, Edday and Lunik. Important: DJ Weez is from Guadeloupe, not Saint-Martin. The 2026 audit locks the correction.

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DO

Bouyon artist · first Gwada wave

Doc J

December 31, 2011. Kassidje Gazagirl's "A PA TAW" single drops with Doc J as feature — one of the oldest catalogued Bouyon Gwada releases. And Doc J is already there. For six years, he becomes one of the male voices of the first hardcore wave with Suppa, DJ Joe and Weelow. His "doc-j-officiel" SoundCloud drops "WE LOVE BOUYON" with Kassidje in September 2012. Le Courrier de Guadeloupe cites him in print. The "Bouyon Hardcore 2k13" mix lists him among the five names defining the era. Not a global Bouyon name, but a pillar of Gwada hardcore memory.

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DO

Bouyon artist · Nasty Business network (collaborator)

Dova

In 2022, Dova drops his voice on "Push Ur Hand In Your" alongside Kenny G, Mr Ridge and Pudaz. It's a four-voice feature that lands on les playlists Bouyon via the Bouyon Nation page. Without knowing it, Dova has just joined one of the founding moments of the Nasty Business circuit: Mr Ridge won't release his eponymous single — the one that gives the subgenre its official name — until a few months later, in August 2022. Dova works as a featuring voice in the network, not as an identified solo artist. His catalogue circulates today via the les playlists Bouyon Dominica Carnival Starter Pack playlist.

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DR

Bouyon artist · Gwada transition

Drexi

2019, Drexi (also spelled Drex) drops "Si Manman'w Té Sav" with Kevni and Edday — his entry into the 2016-2022 Bouyon Gwada relaunch. Four years later, in 2023, he follows up with "Mi Bouyon" featuring 1T1 — direct shift into the New Bouyon Wave. Drexi isn't one of the eight voices officially naming the NBW, but his 2019-2023 double drop places him among the artists bridging the transition and today's moment.

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EB

Bouyon · Soca · Calypso singer-songwriter

Ebony Empress

Ebony Empress — civil name Everlyn Walters, born August 16, 1986 in Portsmouth (Dominica) — has been singing since she was ten. Based in St. Maarten since 2000 to study at the University of St. Maarten, she went full Bouyon in October 2021 with the single `Best I Ever Have` on Erns Entertainment / SW Recordz, which immediately rolled out the Best I Ever Have challenge on social media. In March 2025, she was one of the 56 entrants in the very first Bouyon Road March staged during Mas Domnik in Dominica — a rare presence for a female artist on that circuit.

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FA

Bouyon artist

Faithii

Faithii — better known by her stage name Bouyon Barbie — is one of the major female voices of Dominican Bouyon's 2024+ generation. From Dominica, she breaks through in 2024 with "I Know Y" alongside Kenny G and Reo, then "SUPERSTAR" pushes her into the mainstream the same year. In 2025, she wins "Female Artist of the Year" at the Dominica Music Awards and joins the official lineup of the World Creole Music Festival.

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FA

Crossover artist · claimed RnBouyon creator

Fallon

Fallon is the first to claim creation of RnBouyon — the R&B-meets-slowed-Bouyon fusion no one had named before her. From 2024, she lays R&B vocals over slow Bouyon riddims and opens a sub-current that Denden picks up in 2024-2025 and Theodora pushes into the French Spotify Top 10 with a platinum single. Her profile doesn't yet carry the numbers of her heiresses, but without her, the 2025 Eurockeennes Belfort "Bad Gyal Bouyon Le Bon" line-up wouldn't exist.

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GA

Bouyon Gwada collective · founded by Suppa

Gaza Crew

In the early 2010s, when Suppa (Lincoln Robin) lands in Guadeloupe from Dominica, he does not just join Yellow Gaza. He founds his own collective: Gaza Crew. Not a clone, not a branch — a neighbouring entity, centred on him. For three years, this collective carries 160 BPM hardcore Bouyon with releases that stay in people's memory: the Vadore Concept SoundCloud trace in 2011, the Gaza Girls' "Sa Zot Vle" single the same year, the December 2012 Paris set in the diaspora. In 2013, Suppa dies. The collective stops, but its memory still feeds the entire contemporary Bouyon Gwada.

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GA

Female Bouyon Gwada collective

Gaza Girls Crew

2010, Bouyon Gwada starts circulating between Dominica and Guadeloupe. Five women form Gaza Girls Crew: Kassidje (Jessica Petro), Gaza Izzy, La Barbie, DJ'Angel and Ghetto Princess. They ride at 160 BPM hardcore in a scene institutions are already trying to slow down — la presse dominicaine documents the tension in 2012. Distinct from Gaza Crew (Suppa's collective) and Yellow Gaza (Vador, DJ Joe, Asa Banton), they drop "Sa Zot Vle" on the Bouyon Concept label in 2011, then "A PA TAW" the same year. The December 2012 Paris set takes them into the diaspora. Bouyon's women are there more than ten years before the New Bouyon Wave.

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HO

Female group · Gwada Bouyon

Holly G

2021, Holly G drops "Bandit" and lands a strong female voice in Gwada Bouyon. Three years later, she's nominated at the BET Awards 2024 in the Best New International Act category — first Guadeloupean artist at that level. In between: her feature on "Je l'ai vu" with Arendi and VJ Ben, then her collab with Theodora on "Coller la petite" in 2025. A trajectory paving the way for Bouyon's global crossover.

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HU

Dominican Bouyon artist

Hussey

Hussey is a Dominican voice circulating in today's Bouyon. On the Carnival side, he moves around Trixz Migos and shows up on the Dominica Carnival Starter Pack on les playlists Bouyon — the playlist that opens the door to artists active on the island during the season. His name keeps coming back when you look for the voices holding Dominican Carnival together between two big singles.

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J

Dominican Bouyon artist

J Lion

J Lion is one of the Dominican voices passing through Mr Ridge's orbit — multiple Bouyon Artist of the Year at the Caribbean Music Awards and key international producer of the genre. Marker single: "No Love", placing him on the Cross D Bridge network. His visibility builds through the network more than through a platform solo catalogue, like many Dominican Bouyon artists of his generation.

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J2

Producer · riddim maker · DJ

J2MO

J2MO has been producing Bouyon Gwada since 2009. A duo: J2mothebeatcooker who builds the beats, J2modj who spins them in clubs. When hardcore Bouyon settles at 160 BPM in Guadeloupe, his instrumentals are the ones Suppa, Gaza Girls, Asa Bantan and Miky Ding La use to ride. Bandcamp archives "The Story of J2MO" as the memory of that era. Ten years later, he's still dropping: "Gold Color Riddim" in 2021 reopens the post-COVID cycle, alongside D0 Production's "Hot Bouyon Riddim". Today, Aknose and 1T1 cite him in interviews as one of the technical foundations of the scene.

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JI

Bouyon artist

Jixels

Jixels — real name Jonathan Elusca, from Guadeloupe — is at the same time an artist, beatmaker and musician. From 2024, his name starts showing up regularly in the credits with "WIFI Freestyle" and "Adios Amigos". In 2025, "Nouveau La" with BRG Hollywood plugs him into Saint-Martin. In 2026, "Jéré Sa" with DJ Softee, Edday, DJ Boko and YSN locks his place. His catalog runs through Reo, DJ Luchshiy, LeJuh, Aknose, Luky Lukee, Shanika and Edday.

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KA

Bouyon artist · first hardcore Gwada wave

Kassidje

December 31, 2011. Kassidje — real name Jessica Petro — drops "A PA TAW" featuring Doc J. One of the oldest catalogued Bouyon Gwada releases, and she's a woman, at 160 BPM, in a scene with no streaming platform yet. With Gaza Izzy, La Barbie, DJ'Angel and Ghetto Princess, she forms the core of Gaza Girls Crew — distinct from Gaza Crew (Suppa) and Yellow Gaza (Vador, DJ Joe, Asa Banton). Fifteen years later, she's back: "Deja Koke" with Gwada G drops in 2026 and places her back in the present. The bridge between the first hardcore wave and today's female generation.

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KE

Collective / Bouyon artist · Warm Up

KEKS MAFIA

On December 15, 2022, KEKS MAFIA — real name Kev Leonard — releases a single that sets the tone: "Bouyon Warm Up". It's the first solid official release of the Warm Up subgenre, the slower-tempo branch of Bouyon between 125 and 134 BPM. Two earlier releases exist — "1T1-bouyon warm up akiyo" from November 15, 2021 and "Kay'J × Ckay - Emiliana (Warm Up Bouyon)" from December 30, 2021 — but KEKS MAFIA is the one laying down the first official discographic inscription. In 2024, he drops "Krikéy" with Totally Spice's in Guadeloupe. In 2025, "Say My Name" with Sukie extends the Burn Brain / Nasty Business network.

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KE

Bouyon artist

Kevni

Kevni — real name Sandy Kevin Tel-agnesa, from Petit-Canal in Guadeloupe — spent nine years building a YouTube presence before things took off. In 2017, "Corsaire" finally placed him in Guadeloupean dancehall. In 2018, "Olaleyley" pulled his audience onto Bouyon ground — a single that became a reference across Caribbean sound systems. Since 2023, he's been chaining features with TIITII NBA and the entire new Gwada wave.

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Bouyon artist · first wave Yellow Gaza

Keytzone

May 1, 2012. Keytzone rides "Bouwe'y", a Yellow Gaza single where she shares the feature with Tasmo. les plateformes streaming keeps the date. This presence on a 2012 release places her among the guest voices of hardcore Bouyon Gwada at 160 BPM, at a precise moment when the sound is settling in Guadeloupe. The organising core stays Vador, DJ Joe and Asa Banton — Keytzone isn't part of it, but she's in their repertoire.

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KH

Bouyon artist · Nasty Business · US diaspora

Khallion

In December 2024, Khallion takes the stage in Atlanta for "Bram vs Bouyon". A few months later, in July 2025, he drops his album "777 Di Bouyon Rockstar" — a long format that consolidates his solo identity in a circuit where features dominate. On April 26, 2025, he joins the Strictly the Best Festival — Bouyon Edition lineup in Saint Martin in front of 5,000 fans. A Dominican artist from the Nasty Business and Warm Up circuit, he counts around 21,000 Spotify monthly listeners and keeps weaving his network with Problem Child, Reo, Dirty Dawg Pudaz and Kenny G.

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KI

Triple Kay co-founder · lead keyboardist · producer

Killa

Kendel "Killa" Laurent is one of the three co-founders of Triple Kay International in 2000 in the village of Laudat, Dominica — the three "K" of the name come from his initials, Kenan Cadette's and Kurt Rolle's. He signed the keyboard signature that shaped modern post-WCK Bouyon, produces all the band's music, and remains lead keys / official producer on the 2026 line-up. Twenty-six years after his start, he still carries the sound that defined the second Dominican Bouyon wave — the one that took the genre out of carnival trucks and into regional festivals and the docuseries The Rhythms of Triple Kay.

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KL

Dominican wrecketeng Bouyon collective

Klockerz Krew

In the late 1990s and throughout the 2000s in Dominica, Klockerz Krew is one of the crews keeping the rough Bouyon branch alive — the one called wrecketeng (sometimes spelled reketeng). Rougher, more underground, plugged into hip-hop and dancehall. Without this crew and its whole generation, the 2020s Nasty Business — Pudaz, Kenny G, DJ Taffy, Smokiller — would look like a platform invention coming from nowhere. With them, you understand there's twenty years of tradition behind it.

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LA

Zess artist · Bouyon cross-genre collaborator

Lady Lava

"Ring Finger" lands on Cardi B's les plateformes streaming "Summertime Sounds" playlist in August 2025. A cosign from a global superstar, and everything flips for the Trinidad girl: 149,000 Spotify listeners, la presse trinidadienne and Caribbean Posh covering the news within hours, then Zess/Steam Artist of the Year at the Caribbean Music Awards a few months later. Lady Lava isn't a Bouyon artist — she does Zess, Trinidad's fast Soca sub-genre. But her presence on the 2025 Bouyon Bad Riddim with "Cha Cha Cha" proves a neighbouring female voice can shake the whole Caribbean scene at once.

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LA

Artist · Gwada transition collaborator

LaRose

2019, LaRose rides "Ti KoKa" with Bilix, VJ Ben and Edday — his entry into the Bouyon Gwada relaunch. Three years later, he follows up with "I Like Woman" in 2022 (Edday, Kevni, Reo). His catalog spans six years and gradually shifts toward the New Bouyon Wave: in 2024, "Gwadloup cho" with Aknose, Kevni and a whole collective, then "Lè an pa siw ou si mwen" direct with Aknose. In 2025, "Call Me" with DJ Luchshiy locks him into today's NBW. A clear bridge between the relaunch and the new wave.

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LE

Bouyon artist

LeJuh

Le Juh — real name Julio Polydamas — is one of the eight voices carrying the New Bouyon Wave, alongside 1T1, TIITII NBA, Softee, Aknose, Nils, Luky Lukee and Theomaa. From 2023 on, "Volé'y" with Luky Lukee and Nils places him in the leading trio. His voice quickly becomes one of the most sought-after of the wave: "Leave Me Alone" with 1T1, Dinho, Theomaa and Binksdrick in 2024, "Pran On Pyé" with 1T1, Qwann and YSN in 2025, "Karibbean Gyal" with Lestef KJF Boyz the same year, then "Move" and "Good" in 2026.

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LE

Bouyon Gwada artist

Lestef KJF Boyz

Lestef KJF Boyz is a Bouyon Gwada solo artist from Loger, active since 2020. His sequence opens with "50/50", a single featuring T-BTS. Then "KJF 2" in 2022. From 2023 on, he steps into DJ Luchshiy's orbit: every year-end he drops a Xmas Freestyle that becomes a fixed date (Xmas freestyle 2023, Chabin / Mons / To to to in 2024). In 2025, the EP X PRESS FREESTYLE with DJ Luchshiy and Edday locks the tandem in, and "Karibbean Gyal" with LeJuh builds a bridge to the New Bouyon Wave.

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Artist · Yellow Gaza credit

Letin Severine

Letin Severine (also spelled Letin Séverine) puts her voice on the Yellow Gaza repertoire during the 2021-2024 female revival cycle. les plateformes streaming keeps "Vole Nonm a Moun" 2022, and Shazam credits her — alongside Letin Sylia — on "Plan A 3 (Femmes Fatales Edition Bouyon)" released in 2024. Same surname as Letin Sylia, same credit cycle. Family, collaborators, or simply namesakes? No public answer for now. But the 2022-2024 catalogue chain inscribes her trace in the female Bouyon Gwada memory.

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Artist · Yellow Gaza credit

Letin Sylia

In 2022, the Yellow Gaza pole revives a repertoire — seven years after the lull that followed Suppa's death. Letin Sylia (sometimes spelled Letin Sylvia) is one of the female voices credited on this new cycle. les plateformes streaming keeps "Vole Nonm a Moun" 2022, and Shazam confirms her presence on "Plan A 3 (Femmes Fatales Edition Bouyon)" released in 2024. This is not an official reactivation of the original Gaza Girls Crew — it is an associated repertoire that keeps the Yellow Gaza female voices in the conversation before the platform explosion.

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LG

Collective / 1T1 network credit

LGC

LGC is a collective cited in the Bouyon Gwada map as belonging to the extended circle around 1T1, alongside Nice and Cheng. Not part of the eight voices carrying the New Bouyon Wave (1T1, TIITII NBA, Softee, Aknose, Nils, Luky Lukee, Le Juh, Theomaa) — the profile keeps the name in the collaborators perimeter. Exact composition, dated releases, catalogue distribution: everything remains to document with primary sources.

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LI

Producer · Bouyon artist

Little Boy

Little Boy — also spelled Litleboy or Lil Boy depending on platforms — is one of the central voices of late-2020s Dominican Bouyon-Soca. In 2021, he features on Reo's "Dou dou", his first platform link. Then everything speeds up: between 2024 and 2026, his name appears on roughly twenty releases, most often with Quan, Trilla G, Freddy, Trixx, Gwada G or DJ Taffy. The peak: "Someone Else" with Quan and Trilla G wins Soca Collaboration of the Year at the 2025 Caribbean Music Awards.

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MA

Bouyon artist · T-BTS member

Ma6mo

Ma6mo (uppercase spelling MA6MO) is one of the three core members of Team Bwe Tou Sa, alongside FLW and Lunik. In 2020, he founds the collective with "50/50" (produced by DJ Skaylone). Six years later, in 2026, he shifts toward the TIITII NBA pole: "LESE NOU PASE feat. Ma6mo & Diixly" drops on 6 February, followed by "Warm Up" (TIITII NBA x Ma6mo x Diixly). And he keeps his T-BTS slot — "FREESTYLE CARNAVAL" 2026 reunites the three core names (T-BTS x FLW x Ma6mo x Lunik). Double membership owned.

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MA

Soca artist · Bouyon crossover reference

Machel Montano

Machel Montano starts at age 9 in 1981 on the Trinidad Soca scene. Forty years later, he's become the King of Soca. In the Bouyon story, it's not his legend that matters — it's what his voice does to the genre when it crosses his productions. In 2019, he sings on "Famalay" with Bunji Garlin and Skinny Fabulous: track produced by Dominican Dada (Krishna Lawrence), Trinidad Road March straight away. In 2021, he comes back on "Family", credited Soca at release then revealed Bouyon by Killa (Triple Kay) in 2025. His profile tells the grey zone where Trinidad Soca absorbs Dominican Bouyon without always crediting it.

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MA

Electronic collective · mainstream Bouyon passer

Major Lazer

Major Lazer is Diplo, Walshy Fire and Ape Drums — global EDM project on the Mad Decent label since 2008. Between 2022 and 2025, they release the "G.O.A.T. Bouyon Mixes" series with Bunji Garlin: first time a global mainstream EDM label puts the word Bouyon in an official release title. The Caribbean press calls it a "Bouyon-powered anthem". The Dominican genre gets its biggest international EDM validation that day. Major Lazer isn't a Bouyon voice, and the core of the genre stays in Dominica. But the trio distributes it everywhere EDM plays. It's not the origin. It's the amplifier.

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Bouyon artist, founding member of Tolly Boyz

Mathieu Richardson

Mathieu grows up in Sandy Ground, right next door to Youry. April 2015: he's on the bus when Youry hums his line for the first time — Tolly she want. He's the neighbor, the first to hear it. The next day, the trio rushes to Madtwoz studios to record. The M in YMW is him. Two years later, he steps onto the Carnival Village stage with the group while On Plonge feat Bilix crosses 511,000 YouTube views — the first real Bouyon track to drop from SXM.

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Artist · cross-genre New Bouyon Wave feature

Matieu White

In 2023, Matieu White (also spelled Mathieu White) lands on two singles that matter: "Nouvo mood" with YSN and "OG Wet Fest" featuring Mr Ridge — one of the most-streamed Bouyon artists worldwide. Two years later, in 2025, he follows up with "Baddest" (Matieu White x 1T1 x Theomaa, ). Three pieces, three networks. But his profile leans dancehall / urban rather than central Bouyon — hence his place on the New Bouyon Wave periphery.

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Artist · female Bouyon / urban voice

MiiMii KDS

MiiMii KDS is one of the major female breakthroughs in contemporary Gwada Bouyon. With 710,000 monthly Spotify listeners, direct writing and a hyperactive sound produced by DJ Skycee, she's one of the voices pulling the scene toward globalization. Her single "Sé Miimii" feat. DJ Skycee in 2025 becomes the first Bouyon single reviewed by Pitchfork. She follows up in 2026 with "In Di Corner" feat. 1T1 and an announced presence at Les Flammes.

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Bouyon artist

Miky Ding La

Miky Ding La is one of the voices of the first hardcore Bouyon Gwada wave — the one that followed the Gwada Act II carried by Vador, DJ Joe and Asa Banton. As early as 2013, he dropped "Bitin woz" on les plateformes streaming — a single that placed him in the same lane as Kassidje, Ghetto Princess, Sted Kila and Haterz B. Ten years later, he came back with "Sa dou" alongside 1T1 and Shanika in 2023, proving he bridges the Gwada pioneers and the New Bouyon Wave platform era.

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MR

Bouyon artist

Mr Boka

Mr Boka laid his vocal on January 12, 2016 on Bilix's "Sa Ka Débodé" (Ôréveil label), a first-wave Bouyon Gwada single produced by LsNiak Beat with DJ WeeZz and Little Boy Wanted on credits. It's the only track publicly documented under his name. Not to be confused with **DJ Boko** (Allan Blonbou), a Guadeloupean beatmaker active in the TIITII NBA / New Bouyon Wave network — the two spellings look close but refer to two different people.

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WCK vocalist · Roy Rhythms

Mr Delly

Mr Delly — sometimes spelled Mr Delhi, real name Delton Alfred — sings with WCK from the 1990s and stays attached to the WCK / Roy Rhythms core through the entire 2000s decade. Today, his voice counts double: he's one of the rare Bouyon founders still accessible to tell the early years. Co-writing mentioned on "I Love Buy" in the late 1990s. When you try to understand how Bouyon emerged from the Grand Bay studios, he's the one you talk to.

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MR

Artist · producer · entrepreneur

Mr Ridge

Mr Ridge — real name Coleridge Bell, Dominican from Newtown — puts his hands on a keyboard at 11. His training: Dominican classical music, schooled by First Serenade, WCK, Belles Combo and Midnight Groovers. In 2018, he drops "Riddim Tonight", his first solo single. Six years later, he wins the very first Bouyon Artist of the Year at the 2024 Caribbean Music Awards. The next year, he keeps the crown and also takes Bouyon Producer 2025. Around him, through Cross D Bridge, run Money Shaun, J-Lion, NICE, Sukie, Pudaz, Dirty Dawg Pudaz, 1T1. With 207,000 monthly Spotify listeners, he's among the most-streamed Bouyon artists worldwide. His stated goal, told to la presse dominicaine: take Bouyon to the world stage.

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NE

Soca / dancehall artist · Bouyon collaborator

Nessa Preppy

In 2025, Nessa Preppy crosses the Dominican Bouyon circuit twice in a few months. First with "Feel It" feat Punz on the Bouyon Bad Riddim, then with "Dotish Love" alongside Dominican Reo — one of the year's most-covered cross-genre features. The Trinidadian remains a Soca/dancehall voice with 84,700 Spotify listeners, but this double appearance in twelve months marks the moment a female Soca voice starts entering Bouyon productions as a normal playing field — not an exception.

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Dominican Bouyon artist · Nasty Business

Nice

NICE breaks out with "Situashion Ship" on DJ Taffy's Funny Riddim — the single that opens the door to Dominican Nasty Business. Right after, "Wake Me Up" with Gwada G consolidates the tandem. In 2024, "Without You" alongside Reo, Trilla-G, Unstoppable Shax and Quan Dawg — five voices on the same feature — installs him at the heart of the scene. The same year, la presse caribéenne cites him among Dominican nominees for Bouyon Artist of the Year at the Caribbean Music Awards. In 2025, he joins the main lineup of Strictly the Best Festival — Bouyon Edition in Saint Martin.

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NI

Bouyon artist · New Bouyon Wave

Nils

Nils is one of the eight voices carrying the Guadeloupean New Bouyon Wave, alongside 1T1, TIITII NBA, Softee, Aknose, Luky Lukee, Le Juh and Theomaa. In September 2023, he lands on "New Bouyon Wave #1" with Aknose, DJ Softee, Theomaa and TIITII NBA — the single that officially names the movement. That same year, "Volé'y" with Luky Lukee and Le Juh confirms his connector role inside the crew. In 2024, "BIKE LIFE" with Le Juh extends the tandem.

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DJ-producer collective · wrecketeng founders

Nursery Krew Inc.

In the early 2000s, in Dominica, a crew of young DJ-producers drop heavy samples on Bouyon rhythms and stack rap, hip-hop and dancehall on top. That crew is Nursery Krew Inc. — NKI to the fans. The subgenre that comes out of it is wrecketeng (sometimes spelled reketeng). Their estimated first track "Peanuts" lands somewhere between 2002 and 2005. The lineage runs through Jolly Burn Brain, Charlie Black, Watty and DJ Cut. Twenty years later, Smokiller picks up the torch and claims NKI as direct root on his 2025 project.

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PR

Soca artist · Bouyon collaborator

Problem Child

Problem Child is a Saint Vincent Soca voice active since the 2010s. Between 2025 and 2026, his career swings into Dominican Bouyon. In 2025, he signs "Fym" with Mr Ridge — the Dominican artist crowned 2x Bouyon Artist of the Year at the 2024 and 2025 Caribbean Music Awards — and that feature becomes one of the most visible cross-genre tracks of the Mr Ridge crowning year. In 2026, he follows up with "Shut Up" alongside Khallion and Reo. Problem Child stays a Saint Vincent Soca artist, but his profile shows how Dominica absorbs Vincentian Soca voices into its circuit.

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Bouyon artist · 2025 DMA Bouyon Artist of the Year

Pudaz

In 2022, Pudaz — also credited Dirty Dawg Pudaz — drops his voice on "Push Ur Hand In Your" alongside Dova, Kenny G and Mr Ridge. He steps into the Nasty Business circle just before the Mr Ridge explosion in August of the same year. Two years later, "B.D.Y.M.M." with Ridge (2024) starts spinning on Shazam. The 2024 World Creole Music Festival programs him headlining alongside Ridge. In 2025, he wins Bouyon Artist of the Year at the Dominica Music Awards. On April 26, 2025, he hits the Strictly the Best Festival SXM stage in front of 5,000 fans. In 2026, he drops "Have What They Have" with Faithii — the single bridging him to the new Bouyon Barbie female wave.

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QU

Bouyon artist

Quan

Quan — real name Quan Kyren Denis — comes out of Dominica and dropped "Someone Else" with Little Boy and Trilla-G in July 2024, a track that won Soca Collaboration of the Year at the 2025 Caribbean Music Awards. He followed up with "Forever", "Late Night", "I Don't Care", "Your Friend" and "Shake Your" alongside Little Boy, DJ Taffy and Freddy between 2024 and 2026, plus the "Smooth & Easy Party Mix" album with Little Boy in January 2025.

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Bouyon beatmaker

Qwann

Qwann lands on four singles between 2024 and 2026, in two different sub-circles of the New Bouyon Wave. "1er Feu" 2024 ties him to the Miimii / Lucky Lukee circle (with Binksdrick, Dinho — ). "Pran On Pyé" 2025 places him in the 1T1 pole (with YSN, LeJuh — ). "Uhdahdah #2" 2025 confirms with Lucky Lukee and 1T1. And in 2026, "Move" brings together YSN, Aknose, LeJuh, Theomaa, 1T1 and Qwann — four canonical NBW pillars around him. Recognised beatmaker, not a pillar, but a cross-network pivot.

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Bouyon artist

Shanika

In July 2023, Shanika — real name Maeva Ingrid Alphonse — drops "Kay vé yo", a single that became the summer hit on the back of the viral catchphrase "Je m'appelle Shanika et j'adore le Nutella". From Guadeloupe, she then toured France, Germany, Réunion, Martinique and French Guiana. A remix with Mr Vegas followed, then the "Replay" EP in April 2025, plus key features with 1T1, Miky Ding La, MiiMii KDS and Little Boy.

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SH

Bouyon artist · Signal Band lead · Bouyon Road March

Shelly

Between 2009 and 2011, Shelly — real name Sheldon Alfred, from Goodwill, Dominica — wins three Junior Calypso crowns in a row. His voice builds inside competition. In August 2010, he co-founds Signal Band and becomes the band's lead vocalist. Fifteen years later, his discography: "Baby Come Back" in 2015, "Ani Ba Yo Love" in 2017 (the anthem after Maria, the hurricane that devastates the island in September). In 2021, he becomes president of the Association of Music Professionals — a rare status for an active Bouyon artist. In March 2025, on "RAGS" with Trilla-G and Skinny Fabulous, he wins the first-ever Bouyon Road March in Mas Domnik history.

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SI

Bouyon band · modern Dominican band

Signal Band

In August 2010, seven young musicians gather on Cross Street, Roseau, and found Signal Band. The group joins WCK and Triple Kay in the trio shaping modern Dominican Bouyon. Five years later, the single "Baby Come Back" places them in the public landscape. In 2017, "Ani Ba Yo Love" becomes the anthem after Maria — the devastating hurricane that hits Dominica in September 2017. In March 2025, they sign "RAGS" with Trilla-G and Skinny Fabulous: the track wins the first-ever Bouyon Road March in Mas Domnik history. Documented tours: USA, Trinidad, Carifesta XIV.

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SK

Bouyon artist · bouyon-muffin · former WCK collaborator

Skinny Banton

In 1993, Skinny Banton — civilly Wayne Robinson, aka Shadowflow — launches his vocal project in Dominica. Two years later, he signs a collaboration with WCK that formalizes a new subgenre: bouyon-muffin, a fusion that drops Jamaican ragga toasting and dancehall on the Bouyon rhythmic base at slower tempos (110-135 BPM). In 2010, his compilation "Best of Skinny Banton 'Bouyon Muffin'" lands on Spotify with 22 tracks. It's the record that sums up the subgenre. Important: Skinny Banton is NOT Skinny Fabulous, the SVG-Grenada soca artist behind "Famalay" 2019 and "Water" 2023.

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SK

Soca artist · Bouyon collaborator

Skinny Fabulous

Skinny Fabulous is Gamal Doyle on the birth certificate — Saint Vincent Soca Monarch, multiple champion, one of the most-exported voices of the anglophone Caribbean. In the Bouyon story, what counts is his bridge role. In 2019, he sings on "Famalay" with Machel Montano and Bunji Garlin: track produced by Dominican Dada (Krishna Lawrence), Trinidad Road March straight away, first international Bouyon → Soca crossover. In March 2025, he comes back with "RAGS" alongside Shelly Alfred (Signal Band) and Trilla-G: the track wins the very first Bouyon Road March edition in Dominica with 108 votes out of 56 entrants. Skinny stays a Soca artist first, but those two summits place him at the heart of cross-genre passages.

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Artist · modern wrecketeng producer

Smokiller

In the 2000s in Dominica, Nursery Krew Inc. (NKI) and Burn Brain Jolly invent wrecketeng — the underground branch of Bouyon mixing heavy sampling, rap, hip-hop and dancehall. Twenty years later, Smokiller picks that line back up and brings it back to life. He's not creating a new subgenre: he modernizes it with trap, drill and R&B hooks. In 2025, he drops a wrecketeng project that la presse dominicaine covers under the headline "Smokiller's new offering seeks to showcase Bouyon's true identity". For the first time, the lineage is spoken out loud in the press.

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ST

DJ / selector · Vincentian diaspora relay

StratVincyBwoy

StratVincyBwoy is a Vincentian DJ and selector who has been pushing Bouyon into the UK and US diaspora since 2015. On his SoundCloud, he stacks Soca, Vincy soca, Dennery Segment and Bouyon in the same mix — the formula that lets Dominican riddims land in London and New York party speakers. This channel carried Bouyon out of the francophone Caribbean long before journalists or festival bookers did.

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SU

Bouyon artist · Nasty Business

Sukie

Sukie — real name Shane Edwards — is a male artist from Roseau, Dominica. He breaks out with "Work That Pussy Muscle", a direct unfiltered track that places him straight into the Nasty Business carried by Mr Ridge. His nickname Sukie Burn Brain recalls the underground root of Dominican Bouyon. In 2023, he drops the iCandy project with Mr Ridge / Cross D Bridge and keeps stacking releases around Nasty Business.

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SU

Bouyon artist · Gaza Crew founder

Suppa

On November 16, 2011, Suppa uploads "I Don't Kow" to the Vadore Concept SoundCloud. Nobody knows it yet, but it's one of the very first public audio traces of Bouyon Gwada that survives today. Lincoln Robin by his real name, Suppa is Dominican-born, Guadeloupe-based, and he carries the lead voice of the first wave (Act II). He founds Gaza Crew, crosses the Atlantic to Paris in December 2012, and keeps circulating across the European scene through 2013. That same year, he is killed in Guadeloupe. The scene loses its central singer barely 25 years old.

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Bouyon vocalist · Triple Kay International member

Sweet Ticky

In 2000, when Kendel "Killa" Laurent founded Triple Kay International in Laudat, Sweet Ticky was one of the singers he picked. Twenty-five years later, he's still there — a voice that holds on stage, a memory that tells the story. When you try to understand the Dominican Bouyon trajectory between the WCK golden age and the 2020s platform recognition, he's the one you talk to. He knows the bands, the Carnival anthems, the transitions.

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TA

Bouyon artist · first wave Yellow Gaza

Tasmo

On 1 May 2012, the "Bouwe'y" single drops on Yellow Gaza. On the cover, two featured artists: Tasmo and Keytzone. les plateformes streaming still keeps the date today. This presence on a Yellow Gaza single places Tasmo in the circle of guest voices of Bouyon Gwada's hardcore Acte II — at 160 BPM, in the Vador / DJ Joe / Asa Banton chain. Not a pillar figure, rather a featured voice who marked a specific moment. The trace is rare, but it is there.

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Bouyon artist · Triple Kay International vocalist

Tazzy

Tazzy — also credited Sonic Tazzy — sings in Triple Kay International, one of three major modern Dominican Bouyon groups with WCK and Signal Band. The band, launched in 2000 by Kendel "Killa" Laurent, racks up 25 years of career, 41,000 Instagram followers and drops in January 2025 a 6-episode docuseries titled "The Rhythms of Triple Kay". Official lineup: Killa (lead keys, producer), Benji / Khalibu (lead vocals), Sweet Ticky, Tazzy, JJ Yout, Froggy, Zoubs, J-West, Brush Head. In 2025, he releases "Long Spoon" with Bilix and Triple Kay — a track that bridges Dominica and Guadeloupe.

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Bouyon Gwada collective · transition

Team Bwe Tou Sa

In 2020, the "50/50" single drops produced by DJ Skaylone. That is the birth certificate of Team Bwe Tou Sa (also spelled Team Bwè Tou Sa, T-BTS) — a Guadeloupean trio composed of FLW, Lunik and MA6MO. Starting point of the platform Gwada transition. Six years later, the collective still stands: "A PA TI ZAFÈ" 2021 (with Lunik and Deejay Guyguy), "Travailons" 2024 with Billy BYBF, "FREESTYLE CARNAVAL" 2026 reunites the three core names. Watch the confusions: Edday and Lestef KJF are not members, and T-BTS is not J2MO.

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Producer · sound engineer · studio

Tha Wizzard

In 2018, Tha Wizzard's name shows up on the mix and mastering of Reo's "Sa Ka Bay" — a single that now stacks 2.4 million YouTube views. Four years later, his label-studio WizZarD HouSe Records grows inside modern Dominican Bouyon, alongside the Mr Ridge explosion. In 2025, he produces two major releases of the new female wave: Faithii / Bouyon Barbie's "Trippin" and the Trilla-G x Faithii duo's "Come On Baby". Important: Tha Wizzard is NOT Cecil Joseph, the former Roseau mayor between 2001 and 2013, a politician with no connection to music whatsoever.

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French-speaking pop artist · Bouyon crossover bridge

Theodora

Summer 2025. Le Monde calls her "pop phenomenon of the summer". Theodora has just cracked the French Spotify Top 10 with a platinum-certified single. 8.2 million monthly Spotify listeners, second most-streamed francophone female artist according to Billboard France, and a slot at Eurockeennes Belfort on a stage called "Bad Gyal Bouyon Le Bon" with Holly G and Totally Spice's. First time a French voice pushes Bouyon into mainstream radio. She isn't part of the New Bouyon Wave — she's a francophone Congolese-diaspora pop artist. But without her, the word "Bouyon" would never have hit French mainstream playlists this fast.

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Bouyon artist · AB BOYZ

Theomaa

Theomaa — real name Mathéo Coquerelle — is one of the eight voices carrying the New Bouyon Wave, alongside 1T1, TIITII NBA, Softee, Aknose, Nils, Luky Lukee and Le Juh. Member of the AB Boyz crew, he lands on "New Bouyon Wave #1" in 2023, then stacks four consecutive singles with 1T1 between 2024 and 2026: "Bouwey", "Viniw", "Ouba", "Baddest". The 1T1/Theomaa tandem becomes one of the most productive producer-voice duos of the scene.

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TI

Artist · 1T1 network feature

Ti Couby

In 2024, Ti Couby drops "Je te veux que pour moi" with Le Jèm'ss. The next year, he follows up with "Bubble" 2025 (Ti Couby x Le Jèm'ss x 1T1 x Natoxie, ). Two pieces that place him in the 1T1 / Le Jèm'ss circle. But the 2026 internal registry keeps a caveat: his profile leans Reggae more than central Bouyon. New Bouyon Wave periphery rather than pillar — the distinction is deliberate and kept.

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Artist · writer · New Bouyon Wave

TIITII NBA

TIITII NBA was singing Bouyon in Guadeloupe before the term "New Bouyon Wave" even existed. With Aknose and Softee, he forms the founding trio that the next generation plugs into from 2022 onward — Theomaa, Nils, Le Juh, 1T1 and Luky Lukee. In 2023, the single "New Bouyon Wave #1" drops with his name on it alongside Aknose, Softee, Nils and Theomaa. Since then, he's been stacking the Warm Up sessions that define the movement: "KPT", "LESE NOU PASE" and "Warm Up" with Ma6mo and Diixly.

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Saint Martin Bouyon group

Tolly Boyz

Saint Martin, 2015. Bouyon plays everywhere at parties, but no track ever comes from the island itself. Tolly Boyz changes that. The trio forms one April night on a bus at Sandy Ground — Youry Fleming, Mathieu Richardson, Wizito. YMW to the inner circle. Next day, they record Tolly she want at Madtwoz studios on beats made by D-mitri, Youry's older brother. Two years later, On Plonge feat Bilix explodes to 511,000 YouTube views in two months, becomes the 2017 SXM carnival anthem, and the local press crowns them inventors of Saint Martin Bouyon. Tolly Boyz is the pillar that opens the entire SXM scene. Everything else is written after them.

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Female Bouyon duo

Totally Spice's

Totally Spice's is a Guadeloupean duo: Naima Dimina and Carcheline Cereme. In 2023, their single "Chien" plants them in Gwada Bouyon. The next year, "Bouè'y Bay" with TIITII NBA takes off at 1.76 million streams, and "Bouyonstyle № 1" with Bismok widens the network. In 2025, they step onto the Eurockéennes de Belfort stage with the "Bad Gyal Bouyon Le Bon" project. Two female voices building the bridge between contemporary Gwada Bouyon and mainland festivals.

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Dominican Bouyon-Soca artist

Trilla-G

Trilla-G — real name Gael Jno. Baptiste, from Goodwill near Roseau (Dominica) — has been making music since 2017 and was crowned Dominican Calypso King in 2023. In July 2024, "Someone Else" with Little Boy and Quan became one of the biggest Bouyon singles of the year and won Soca Collaboration of the Year at the 2025 Caribbean Music Awards. On October 22, 2025, he released his debut album "Take Me as I Am" (13 tracks, Th3rdHouse Studios USVI), with V'ghn, Stalk Ashley, Mr Ridge and Shelly.

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Dominican Bouyon group

Triple Kay International

Triple Kay International is one of the major Dominican Bouyon bands of the 2000-2026 era. Founded in 2000 in Laudat village by Kenan Cadette, Kurt Rolle and Kendel "Killa" Laurent — the three K of the name — the band released its debut album "Big Ting" that same year. Twenty-five years later, it's grown into a family of nine musicians, nine albums, hundreds of songs and a live reputation that earned them the "Bouyon MVPs" nickname.

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Dominican Bouyon artist · Nasty Business

Trixx

In 2023, Trixx drops his voice on "What To Do" with Reo — his documented entry into Nasty Business. Two years later, in 2025, he joins "Forever" with Litleboy, Freddy, Quan and Gwada G — five voices on the same freestyle circulating across the Caribbean. The same year, he takes the Strictly the Best Festival — Bouyon Edition stage in Saint Martin on April 26, 2025. In 2026, "Gangsta Love Bouyon Freestyle" and "Hustle" with Kenny G and Litleboy confirm his spot. Correct spelling: Trixx, not to be confused with Trixz Migos.

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Dominican Bouyon artist / group

Trixz Migos

Trixz Migos is one of the new names pushing into Dominican Bouyon in the 2020s. In 2025, his single "What She Like" starts spinning on the year's Bouyon mixes. The track plugs him into producer Boy Freeze, the man behind part of Trilla-G's work. On the bridge side with the Guadeloupean New Bouyon Wave, he lands "Shake It" with TIITII NBA — a feature linking him straight to the NBW core. For now, his visibility runs through les playlists Bouyon playlists and compilations rather than a big platform single.

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VJ

DJ · producer · transition collaborator

VJ Ben

VJ Ben has been spinning as a DJ since 2013, but in 2021 his production work shifts into high gear. When he produces "Je l'ai vu" with HollyG and Arendi, he lays down the beat that opens the post-COVID Bouyon Gwada cycle — the window that directly paves the way for the 2023 New Bouyon Wave. Two years earlier, he was already credited as producer on "Ti KoKa" 2019 with Bilix, LaRose and Edday. The "Charles V Remix" 2023 relaunches the track on the platform chain. A pivot producer, not a global pillar — but the New Bouyon Wave was built on his beats.

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Foundational Bouyon group

WCK

In 1988, in a Grand Bay studio in Dominica, a band plugs in a TR-505 drum machine and invents a music genre without knowing it. Gordon Henderson's cadence-lypso, the jing ping played by elders on accordion and syak, the carnival lapo kabwit, the dancehall arriving through sound systems — everything runs through the same machine and the same keyboard. The result has a name: Bouyon. WCK — Windward Caribbean Kulture — lays the first brick with the "Work It Out (Bouyon Remix)" inside the "One More Sway" album of 1988. Two years later, "Culture Shock" installs the sound inside the Dominican carnival. The historical core: Derek "Rah" Peters on drums, Cornell "Fingers" Phillip on keyboards, Mr Delly on memory voice, Skinny Banton on the bouyon-muffin color.

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Bouyon artist · first Gwada wave

Weelow

In 2012, Weelow (also known as Wee Low, possible identity Wilow Desirade) drops two singles on the Bouyon King / Label Bouyon Music label: "Ni Sa La" and "Frappéy". les plateformes streaming still holds them today — catalogue proof of the first hardcore Gwada wave. Le Courrier de Guadeloupe cites him in print with Gaza Girls and Doc J. The "Bouyon Hardcore 2k13" mix places him with Suppa, DJ Joe and Doc J as one of the five names of the era. Not a global pillar — his role is historical, anchored in the first Gwada wave — but without him, the Bouyon Gwada 2012 label infrastructure would not exist the way we read it today.

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SXM producer · Knockin Records

Xavvoknockin

Xavvoknockin (Xavern Labega) is an SXM Bouyon producer. His studio signature appears on BRG Hollywood's WTHelly Bouyon feat Gwada G (May 16, 2025, BankrollGang label) per Shazam, and on catalog traces Jet2Holidays Bouyon Riddim and WGFT Bouyon. The Knockin Records label and Soca Records 2025 mention confirm his role in the SXM 2025-2026 platform phase, distinct from the artist C4.

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Bouyon Gwada collective

Yellow Gaza

Yellow Gaza is one of the pillar projects of Act II of Bouyon in Guadeloupe (2007-2013). Driven by Vador, DJ Joe and Asa Banton, the collective was the first stage bridge between Dominica and Guadeloupe: it opened the road for Gaza Girls, Suppa and the whole Guadeloupean generation that followed. Distinct from Gaza Crew (founded by Suppa), Yellow Gaza remains a founding trace in the Bouyon Gwada memory long before the platform era.

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Bouyon artist, founding member of Tolly Boyz

Youry Fleming

April 2015. Sandy Ground. Youry is 18, sitting in a party bus with his friends, and he hums something. Three words that stick — Tolly she want. A few hours later, Wizito performs it at a party in front of the crowd. The room reacts hard. Next morning, the three are at Madtwoz studios recording on beats made by his older brother D-mitri. The first Bouyon track actually made in Saint Martin happens like that, out of a bus ride, because a kid was tired of only hearing Bouyon from other islands.

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Beatmaker · composer

YSN

YSN — real name Nicolas Lanclume — is a Guadeloupean beatmaker and composer. Since 2024, his name keeps coming back on the releases that shape the New Bouyon Wave: "Manawa" with Aknose in 2024, then in 2025 "Pran On Pyé" with 1T1, Le Juh and Qwann, "Matcha" and "Palabras" with Aknose. And in 2026, "Move" brings 1T1, Aknose, Le Juh, Theomaa and Qwann around him — proof that he's become one of the producers the new generation lays their vocals on.

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