BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – CALYPSONIAN and Soca artiste Super D of Antigua will be performing tonight (Nov. 19) and tomorrow night with the Legends Tent as part of a cultural exchange.
He will be performing tonight at De Pub in Cayon and on Saturday night at De House Niteryin Soho Village in Basseterre.
Super D, whose real name is Dion Sylvester Brown, said he loves the art form and has been singing for the past five years.
Brown told SKNVibes that he decided to get into the art form after he wrote song for a friend who was entering a competition. He said the song was well-received.
“So I started writing more songs and decided to write one and sing it. When I released it, it stayed number one on the top charts in Antigua for four weeks,” he added.
The name of the song is ‘Work the Bumper’ and it is an up tempo beat that he released in 2005.
He also has another track that speaks to a serious issue among youths called ‘Youth in Crisis’.
Brown, a Prison Officer by profession, said a number of young people in Antigua are getting themselves involved in criminal activities and joining gangs, and because of that situation he felt compelled to write the song.
“Our youths are in crisis,” he said.
Brown said the youths need to be involved in more social programmes to occupy their time.
“Parents need to pay more attention to their children and counselling, especially counselling in the early stages of their lives. It may help in deterring them from criminal activities,” he said.
Brown said he would be working on his third album shortly.
The Antiguan artiste’s trip was made possible by the Legend’s Band Entertainment and the Antigua Calypsonian Association.
The band is managed by reigning National Carnival Monarch Sylvester Hodge, whose personal assistant, Jacqueline McCleave, said the exchange of the calypsonian is to help keep the art form alive.
“It’s all about encouraging persons who may have an interest in calypso that there are still people
out there involved in the art form,” she said.
She said Brown would be performing free of cost and that when Antigua’s Carnival comes around calypsonians from the Legend’s Tent would also be performing at that island’s events.
She said Brown is the second Antiguan calypsonian to perform in St. Kitts. The first was ‘Dr. Principal’ and plans are afoot on bringing ‘Lady Lipstick’ and ‘Blondy’ to the Federation.
