Triple Kay International

Founded in Laudat in 2000 by the three Ks

Triple Kay International is born in 2000 in the village of Laudat, Dominica. Three founders: Kenan Cadette, Kurt Rolle and Kendel "Killa" Laurent, the three Ks in the name. That same year, the band releases its first album, "Big Ting". At that point Triple Kay still plays a mix of cadence-lypso, Haitian compas and zouk. The full switch to bouyon lands around 2005, after Wayne "Benji" Benjamin joins for good on lead vocals. That direction is what consolidates the band's bouyon identity and opens the rest of the run.

Road March, World Creole Music Festival and institutional recognition

From 2005 onward, the Road March count at the Roseau Carnival keeps climbing: wins in 2008, 2015, 2017, 2019. The single "Bubblin" comes out in 2012. Over the same stretch, Triple Kay plays every edition of the World Creole Music Festival without a break since 2005. In 2022 the band receives the Commonwealth Meritorious Service Award and the Golden Drum Award, two pieces of institutional recognition rarely given to a bouyon band. Four years later, in 2026, the live track "Take The Bus Baby" led by Sonic Tazzy becomes one of the anthems of the Roseau Carnival.

Twenty-five years after Laudat, a family of nine musicians

Twenty-five years after the beginnings in Laudat, Triple Kay has become a family of nine musicians, nine albums, hundreds of tracks and a live reputation that earns them the nickname "Bouyon MVPs". The band has given more than 30,000 dollars to education in Dominica and remains one of the few bouyon bands touring internationally on a regular basis. Its place on the map of the genre is that of a pillar band: the line that keeps the band format alive in a genre that has been tilting since the 2010s towards solo artists and producers. Recent collaborations show it: "Long Spoon" in 2025 with Bilix and Sonic Tazzy connects the band to the contemporary scene, while "Shake Ya x Shake It" in 2023 with Asa Banton crosses two major generations of Dominican bouyon. Triple Kay is not an archive band, it is a band still writing what comes next, while remaining the reference everyone else measures themselves against.