Mr Delly

Mr Delly is a central memory-voice of Dominican Bouyon. He comes into music on drums, in the band that Derek "Rah" Peters, a former WCK front, puts together with Roy, a former member of First Serenade; the lineup releases the album "Raw" around 2003. It's from Rah that he learns the rhythm-and-chant style, before leaving that band to join WCK on vocals.

At WCK he becomes one of the voices of the 2000s decade, alongside Skinny Banton and Naye, the group's melody voice. He's at the heart of "767", one of the group's anthems: by his own account, the chant was born live on stage at Scott Head, the "767" motif prompted by Daddy Peter, vocalist of Effects Band. His own song "I Love Bouyon", co-written with Brenton Vidal, gave the Love Bouyon platform its name, the exact date of the song still to confirm.

His role is as much memorial as musical. He carries the word of the early Bouyon years, a period where public documentation stays partial and where oral sources count as much as discographic archives. That is what makes him valuable: the founding actors Cornell Phillip and Derek "Rah" Peters have not yet been interviewed in full, and Mr Delly is one of the still-reachable actors able to fill those gaps.