Port-of-Spain, Trinidad – One a part of the newly topped St. Vincent and the Grenadines Soca Monarch, Skinny Fabulous, says he’s extraordinarily completely satisfied to have returned to the Soca Monarch stage after six years. Answering the decision of the folks, Skinny, in a transfer even he hadn’t deliberate, just lately gave the folks of SVG, and people visiting for the island’s carnival, a present that may stay on in historical past, for a few years to return.
Fireman Hooper, Skinny Fabulous’s rival within the Soca Monarch, lit up the stage on present evening. They carried out a tune known as “Erupt.” This tune was a name to motion that the group eagerly embraced.
“When the tune was launched, there was no intention to enter the Soca Monarch competitors,” mentioned the artiste. Collaborating with Fireman Hooper was one thing nobody anticipated, however for Skinny, there was no motive for him to not. “This was one thing excellent to the folks as a result of over time, after I was part of the competitors, we have been rivals, however exterior of the competitors, there actually was no rivalry,” he defined. It had been six years since Skinny Fabulous had mounted St. Vincent’s Soca Monarch Stage. “This tune began off as a contribution to the carnival however when the folks started calling for it within the competitors, in an effort to carry again the curiosity to the competitors, we entered.”
Soca Monarch Competitors Collaboration
Through the years, attendance to this main carnival occasion had dwindled. This yr nevertheless, the thrill was unparalleled.
“This collaboration represented development. When it comes to the competitors, I imagine any tune could be a Soca Monarch tune however it all comes all the way down to the competitors evening; the competitors is absolutely gained on that evening,” he mentioned.
Through the years, Skinny Fabulous, by way of intentional effort, has created a successful formulation for himself. “Some folks go in being a crowd favorite, however it doesn’t all the time translate to a win. I wish to seize your consideration fast, and maintain it visually, and naturally, with the music. I put a variety of emphasis on singing the tune precisely because it was recorded,” he defined.
Within the aftermath of the win, he says he’s not positive he’ll defend the title in 2026 however he’s completely satisfied that along with Fireman Hooper, he was in a position to carry that power to the folks of his homeland. Now a family title relating to Soca music,
Skinny is targeted on delivering one thing recent as one other carnival yr approaches. “I’m taking one month off and from August I’ll head again into the studio to begin work for 2026. I need to deal with a special presentation of self. I need to decelerate and broaden how I symbolize myself. I’m engaged on some tracks that shall be completely different,” he highlighted, noting that whereas he has mastered the artwork of successfully capturing huge crowds together with his baritone vocals and musical aggression, he now needs to grasp different parts of musical supply.
Carnival Tradition
Pleased with his heritage and the carnival tradition that’s shortly growing in SVG, Skinny Fabulous says he’s seeing development to the purpose the place St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ carnival product could also be rising quicker than what the island can facilitate.
“It’s development to the purpose the place the resorts are totally booked, the occasions are doing nice and rental firms don’t have sufficient automobiles,” he mentioned fortunately. He attributes the expansion partially to the kind of impression St. Vincent’s Soca artistes have had. “Added to the impression of the artistes, I’d say that the expansion can be attributed to folks’s increasing urge for food for several types of tourism and several types of carnivals. We’re in an period now the place individuals are broadening their scope on these completely different carnivals and we’re for positive, one of many carnivals that’s now on the must-experience record.”
Super Progress
A mas producer as properly, the entertainer says his band Oxygen Mas, has been experiencing large development as properly.
“Oxygen Mas 2025 was a convincing success. It was the most important band on the street and that too is experiencing a degree of development that we now have to watch. We might should put a cap on it to make sure high quality and commonplace isn’t compromised,” he mentioned.
Upcoming Occasions for Skinny Fabulous
Grateful for each aspect of his journey to this point, Skinny Fabulous anticipates his upcoming commitments exterior of St Vincent and the Grenadines.
“I’ve been blessed with a constant degree of demand throughout the Soca world and I’m all the time amazed and pleased with what my calendar seems like annually and this yr isn’t any completely different,” he mentioned.
This August, he performs at Planet Brooklyn, an occasion at Barclay’s Centre in New York, headlined by Machel Montano and that includes, Bunji Garlin, Drawback Little one, Woman Lava, Jamaica’s Ayetian and Skillibeng, amongst others.
“Touring is taxing on the physique, mind and household life, however for those who have been to take this away from me for one month, I’d be depressing. It’s what I signed up for, so I’m simply grateful,” he mentioned.
