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Antigua’s Groovy Soca Queen To Be Honoured
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- Friday, 29 April 2011 05:50
- By caribarena news
Antigua St John's - Antigua’s Groovy Soca Queen, Claudette “CP” Peters, will be honoured later this year for her contribution to Caribbean music.
As part of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, the Institute of Gender and Development Studies: Nita Barro Unit (IGDS:NBU) at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, will be honouring women across the region considered to be “Kaiso trailblazers”.
A traditionally male dominated arena, the award recognises the accomplishments of women in the English-speaking Caribbean who have contributed to the development of calypso, chutney, zouk and soca.
Spanning a period of over 30 years, CP joins a sorority of performers who include Singing Sandra; Calypso Rose; Denise Belfon; Fay Ann Lyons; Destra Garcia; (posthumous) Onika Bostic from Trinidad; Ophelia from Dominica; Lady Leen and Nicole David from St Lucia; Alison Hinds and TC from Barbados, and also Queen Ivena from Antigua.
The IGDS:NBU continues to play its part in developing programmes which create linkages between the academic mandate of the University of the West Indies and the Caribbean community it serves.
To this end, the Institute provides and continues to provide a forum for the discussion and sharing of information on all aspects of gender in the Caribbean Society including gender as it relates to culture.
The official award presentation is slated for on October 29 in Barbados.
Deeply humbled and honoured by the award, CP’s contribution to soca has not gone unnoticed. Between her music and volunteer work, especially with children, she continues to improve her craft. In fact, the soca queen reveals that she has undergone a personal process of rebranding and is preparing to offer her fans not only a new range of music, but a new look.
As she prepares for the 2011 Carnival season with the vision of her management company, Team Machine, she has every intention to defend her groovy title and reclaim her party monarch crown.
CP is focussed and hitting the studio harder than ever, and with the honour of this award she has every intention of living up to its symbolic gesture as she continues to contribute to the soca artform across the Caribbean and further, the world.
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Melvin Bridgewater
CONGRATS
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oh no!!!!
oh well, no worries im still young.
peter matt
love claudette but the truth is the truth
peter
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