2004-2005
Sewo
vocalist Triple Kay International
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.
- Role
- Bouyon vocalist · Triple Kay International member
- Origin
- Dominica
- Period
- 2000-2026
- Territories
- Dominica · Caribbean
Why this profile matters
At the start, Sweet Ticky sings alongside Benji and Tazzy. Five years later, in 2005, the band explodes with "Sewo" and sweeps Band of the Year and Song of the Year at the Flamboyant Awards 2005 — the double trophy that installs Triple Kay as the major Bouyon institution of Dominica. But Sweet Ticky isn't just a stage voice. Caribbean press introduces him as the band's historian, the one who tells the story. In 2025, when Triple Kay celebrates 25 years, he's still there. Stage voice and the voice that passes things on, across the long run.
Verified timeline
-
Joins Triple Kay International in the vocal core alongside Benji and Tazzy, as Kendel "Killa" Laurent founds the band.
-
Triple Kay International wins Band of the Year and Song of the Year at the Flamboyant Awards 2005 with "Sewo", the band's signature anthem.
-
Continuous live career with Triple Kay on the Dominica Carnival circuit. Sweet Ticky becomes a recurring voice on live hits and road march anthems.
-
Triple Kay stays active on major Bouyon stages; Sweet Ticky maintains his role of vocalist-memory of the band.
-
The Caribbean press celebrates 25 years of Triple Kay International; Sweet Ticky is cited as historian and recurring voice of the band's legacy.
Tracks / markers
2000-2026
Triple Kay live circuit
vocalist, historical voice of the band
Related chapters
Sources
-
Bouyon discographies — Triple Kay International, era Band moderne
Internal documentation linking Sweet Ticky to Triple Kay within the vocal core and as the band's historian.
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
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.
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.