2004-2005
Sewo
lead vocalist Triple Kay International
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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.
- Role
- Bouyon vocalist · Triple Kay International member
- Origin
- Dominica
- Period
- 2000-2026
- Territories
- Dominica · Caribbean
Why this profile matters
In 2000, when Kendel "Killa" Laurent puts Triple Kay International together, Benji joins the lead vocals alongside Tazzy and Sweet Ticky. Five years later, the band blows up: "Sewo" becomes the signature anthem, and Triple Kay sweeps Band of the Year and Song of the Year at the Flamboyant Awards 2005. That's when Bouyon shifts gears: it walks out of the WCK 1990s and steps into the full stage form — complete bands, dense rhythm sections, lead voices carrying the entire Caribbean Carnival. Benji's career keeps rolling, and in 2025, when Caribbean press celebrates the band's 25 years, he's still one of the voices defining modern Bouyon on stage.
Verified timeline
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Joins Triple Kay International within the vocal core alongside Tazzy and Sweet Ticky, structuring the new generation of Dominican Bouyon stage music.
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"Sewo", Triple Kay International's signature anthem, propels the band to Band of the Year and Song of the Year status at the Flamboyant Awards 2005. Benji is among the lead voices.
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Continuous live career with Triple Kay, on the Dominica Carnival circuit and regional Caribbean lineups.
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Triple Kay remains one of the major Bouyon bands; Benji keeps his lead vocalist role on carnival sets.
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25 years of Triple Kay celebrated in the Caribbean press; Benji keeps his place in the group's active memory.
Tracks / markers
2000-2026
Triple Kay live circuit
lead vocalist on Dominica Carnival programming
Related chapters
Sources
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Bouyon discographies — Triple Kay International, era Band moderne
Internal documentation linking Benji to Triple Kay within the lead vocal core.
https://tiitii-nba.com/bouyon/ch-03-l-arene/ -
Soca News — Triple Kay International, 25 years of Bouyon legacy
Source consolidating "Sewo" 2004-2005 as anthem, Band of the Year and Song of the Year at the Flamboyant Awards 2005.
https://socanews.com/news/triple-kay-international-celebrating-25-years-of-bouyon-legacy/
Profiles linked by musical collaboration
SW
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.
WC
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.
TA
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.